Shadowlands Quotes with Sound Clips

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Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1993 film Shadowlands.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)

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1 We think our childish toys bring us all the happiness there is and our nursery is the whole wide world. But something... Something must drive us out of the nursery to the world of others, and that something is suffering.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

2 I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he makes us the gift of suffering. To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

3 Pain is a tool. If you like, pain is God's megaphone... -Megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Joy Davidman (Debra Winger), C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

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

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

5 Don't you always say, Real life hasn't begun yet? Jack, you better be right.

Joy Davidman (Debra Winger)

6 So reading is a waste of time? -No, it's not a waste of time, but reading is safe, isn't it? Books aren't about to hurt you.

Joy Davidman (Debra Winger), C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

7 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?

Joy Davidman (Debra Winger), C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

8 Why? See, if you love someone, you don't want them to suffer. You can't bear it. You want to take their suffering onto yourself. Even I feel like that. Why doesn't God?

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

9 Yeah, do they have room service? -Room service? I used to think that room service was saying your prayers in bed. -Well, you can order some prayers if you want. I will take a gin and tonic.

Joy Davidman (Debra Winger), C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

10 Beastly things, telephones. Ring, ring, ring. Stop what you're doing. Get up. Hurry, hurry. Ring, Ring, Ring. No manners at all, huh?

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