59 Quotes by C. S. Lewis (Sound Clips) - page 2

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11 How could Joy be my wife? I'd have to love her, wouldn't I? I'd have to care more for her than for anyone else in this world. I'd have to be suffering the torments of the damned at the prospect of losing her.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

12 One has to say things. The moment passes, and then you're alone again. -Yes.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

13 That's not why I pray. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

14 I've just come up against a bit of experience. Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, you learn.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

15 Twice in that life, I've been given the choice. As a boy, and as a man. The boy chose safety. The man chooses suffering.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

16 The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

17 Is it the courtly ideal of love? -What is that? What is its one essential quality? -Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desiring.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

18 If you disagree with me, say so. Fight me. I can take it. Even I can't fight on both sides at once, you know. At least I can, but I'm liable to win.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

19 Where was God on that December night? Why didn't he stop it?

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

20 Well, I'm not what you might call a public figure. -Oh, you're not? I mean, you write all these books, and you give all those talks, and everything just so everybody will leave you alone?

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands

59 Quotes by C. S. Lewis (Sound Clips) - page 2

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