"The Great Divorce" Quotes

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'

You cannot take all luggage with you on all journeys; on one journey even your right hand and your right eye may be among the things you have to leave behind.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

It is not real, you know. There will be a real me, one day.

We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

What you have made me see is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet it has happened every day.

You're not a soul, you are a soul. You have a body.

I'd rather be damned than go along with you.

Fallen! Fallen! A man can fall no further than this.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.