On Heaven as True Reality

"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this." — The Last Battle

"All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before." — The Last Battle

"The dream is ended: this is the morning." — The Last Battle

"To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity." — The Problem of Pain

On Hell as a Chosen State

"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.' All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell." — The Great Divorce

"The doors of hell are locked on the inside." — The Problem of Pain

"I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell: and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself." — The Great Divorce

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