“"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment…"”
Source: The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 8
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Clive Staples Lewis 272
Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963Related quotes

And I hadn't even realized that it had lifted.
I call that depression and anger the Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit of Negativity. It's suffocating, and that rubber stinks. But once you start meditating and diving within, the clown suit starts to dissolve. You finally realize how putrid was the stink when it starts to go. Then, when it dissolves, you have freedom.
Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they are like poison to the filmmaker or artist. They are like a vise grip on creativity. If you're in that grip, you can hardly get out of bed, much less experience the flow of creativity and ideas. You must have clarity to create. You have to be able to catch ideas.
Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit, p. 8
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), The Wind Singer (Book 1), p. 42

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

Source: Esther: A Novel (1884), Ch. X, the last lines of the novel