"Shawshank's Redemption" classic lines

Marta 2022-03-21 09:01:03

Life can be boiled down to a simple choice: either live or die.
Cowardice imprisons the soul of a person, hoping to make you feel free, the strong will save themselves, and the saints will help others.
Strong people can only redeem themselves, and great people can save others.
Life can be boiled down to a simple choice: Either be busy with survival or rush to die.
Hope is good, maybe the best in the world, and good things never pass away.
Among all things, hope is the most beautiful; the most beautiful thing will never die.
Fear makes you a prisoner and hopes to set you free again.
In a quiet place, one can hear one's inner thoughts.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
The story itself is the protagonist, not the person who tells the story.
Entrusting the mind to God and the body to me
"Hope" is a good thing, perhaps the best thing in the world, and good things will never die.
Use one hand to wash away the sins of the other.

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The Shawshank Redemption quotes

  • [after Brooks held a knife to Heywood's throat]

    Andy Dufresne: I just don't understand what happened in there.

    Heywood: Old man's crazy as a rat in a tin shithouse, is what.

    Red: Oh Heywood, that's enough out of you!

    Ernie: I heard he had you shittin' in your pants!

    Heywood: Fuck you!

    Red: Would you knock it off? Brooks ain't no bug. He's just... just institutionalized.

    Heywood: Institutionalized, my ass.

    Red: The man's been in here fifty years, Heywood. Fifty years! This is all he knows. In here, he's an important man. He's an educated man. Outside, he's nothin'! Just a used up con with arthritis in both hands.

  • Red: [narrating, referring to the warden committing suicide] I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him.