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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?

17 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:11:06.896 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Shadows.

- What?

- It's one of my stories. We live in the Shadowlands. The sun is always shining somewhere else. Round a bend in the road. Over the brow of a hill.

- Hello, a London number, please.

- Yesterday, a friend of mine, a very brave, good woman, collapsed in terrible pain.

- One minute, she was fit and well, the next minute, she was in agony.

- She is now in hospital, and this morning I was told she's suffering from cancer.

- 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?

- How is she?

- Not good.

- I'm so sorry, Jack.

- I just want her to be well again, you see.

- Of course you do. We all do.

- What a dangerous world we live in, Warnie.

- You've been up all night. Why don't you get some sleep?

- No, I can't sleep.

[...]

Shadowlands Sound Clip

Shadowlands film poster

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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