- 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.

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anthony hopkins c. s. lewis desire passion

12 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:08:17.299 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 'Night, Jack.

- 'Night, Warnie.

(CHURCH BELL TOLLING IN THE DISTANCE)

- A garden, enclosed by a high wall. Inside the garden, a fountain. In the fountain, two crystal stones. In the crystals, in reflection, a rose garden. In the midst of the roses, one perfect rosebud.

- Guillaume de Lorris is using the rosebud, of course, as an image. But an image of what?

- What kind of love?

- Untouched? Unopened like a bud?

- Perfect love?

- What makes it perfect? Come on. Wake up.

- 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.

- The delight that never fades... The bliss that is eternal is only yours when what you most desire is just out of reach.

- What was that, Mr. Whistler?

- Nothing, Mr. Lewis.

- 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.

- Why is the beer in this pub always cold? Cold beer. Chills the stomach. Has no taste.

- I have a complaint about the wardrobe.

- Complaint? Our children love it.

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And does God want us to suffer? What if the answer to that question is yes? 'Cause I'm not sure that God particularly wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to be able to love and be loved. He wants us to grow up.

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.

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

Give me blizzards and frozen pipes, but not this, nothing time. Not this, waiting room of the world.

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.

Shadowlands Sound Clip

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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