Suffering and Consciousness – C. S. Lewis on the Shadow of Misery

„Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.“

Clive Staples LewisC. S. Lewis on the dual nature of suffering: immediate misery and the consciousness of that misery as its shadow.
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Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish writer and literary scholar. He taught at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and held the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the University of Cambridge.

Lewis reflects on the dual burden of suffering: not merely the immediate experience of grief, but also the conscious awareness of that grief, which multiplies the emotional weight.


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C. S. Lewis quote about suffering, grief, and the consciousness of misery

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was an Anglo-Irish writer, literary scholar, and theologian. He is renowned for his works of Christian apologetics and 'The Chronicles of Narnia'. Lewis taught literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later at the University of Cambridge. His influence extends to modern fantasy literature and Christian philosophy.

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