Shutter Island Quotes? Adapted from Dennis Lehane‘s famous novel by master director Martin Scorsese, the movie starring one of the director’s favorite actors, Leonardo Di Caprio.
Shutter Island Quotes
1- “Crazy people are the perfect subjects. They talk, nobody listens.” – Teddy Daniels, ‘Shutter Island’.
2- “Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?” [talking to Chuck Aule] – Teddy Daniels, ‘Shutter Island’.
3- “We gotta get off this rock, Chuck.” – Teddy Daniels, ‘Shutter Island’.
4- “Pull yourself together, Teddy. Pull yourself together.” – Teddy Daniels, ‘Shutter Island’.
5- “We are duly appointed Federal Marshals.” – Teddy Daniels, ‘Shutter Island’.
6- “I’m sorry, Honey. I love this thing because you gave it to me. But the truth is… it is one fuckin’ ugly tie.” – Teddy Daniels, ‘Shutter Island’.
7- “After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she… she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just… pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn’t listen. I loved her so much.” – Teddy Daniels, ‘Shutter Island’.
8- “Why are you all wet, baby?” – Teddy Daniels, ‘Shutter Island’.
9- “We don’t know how she got out of her room. It was locked from the outside. And the only window’s barred. It’s as if she evaporated, straight through the walls.” – Dr. Cawley, ‘Shutter Island’.
10- “It’s my job to treat the patients, not their victims.” – Dr. Cawley, ‘Shutter Island’.
11- “You blew up my car. I really loved that car.” – Dr. Cawley, ‘Shutter Island’.
12- “Why are you all wet, baby?” – Dr. Cawley, ‘Shutter Island’.
13- “Sanity’s not a choice, Marshall. You can’t just choose to get over it.” [talking to Teddy Daniels] – Dr. Cawley, ‘Shutter Island’.
14- “Did you know that the word ‘trauma’ comes from the Greek for ‘wound’? Hm? And what is the German word for ‘dream’? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn’t you agree, when you see a monster, you must stop it?” [talking to Teddy Daniels] – Dr. Naehring, ‘Shutter Island’.
15- “What would I do if I got out? I don’t know the world anymore. They say there are bombs that can reduce whole cities to ash and uh, what do you call ’em, televisions, voices and faces coming from a box. I hear enough voices already.” [talking to Chuck Aule about getting out ot the mental institute] – Bridget Kearns, ‘Shutter Island’.
16- “Violence is in us. It’s what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor.” [talking to Teddy Daniels] – Warden, ‘Shutter Island’.
17- “- Rachel 2: Once you’re declared insane, and anything you do is called part of that insanity. Reasonable protests are ‘denial’. Valid fears ‘paranoia’.
– Teddy Daniels: Survival instincts are ‘defense mechanisms’.
– Rachel 2: You’re smarter than you look, Marshal. That’s probably not a good thing.” –‘Shutter Island’.
18- “- Nurse Marino: She was in a group therapy session.
– Teddy Daniels: Huh. Anything unusual occur?
– Nurse Marino: This is a mental institution, Marshal, for the criminally insane. Usual isn’t a big part of our day.” [talking about a patient at the mental institute]
19- “- Teddy Daniels: Guy’s name is George Noyce, nice collegekid, socialist. He gets offered some money to do a psyche study. Guess what they were studying?
– Chuck Aule: Toothpastes.
– Teddy Daniels: He starts seeing dragons everywhere.” [talking about a patient at the mental institute]-‘Shutter Island’.
20- “- Warden: God gave us violence to wage in his honor.
– Teddy Daniels: I thought God gave us moral order.
– Warden: There’s no moral order at all. There’s just this: can my violence conquer yours?”-‘Shutter Island’.
21- “-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Men like you are my specialty, you know. Men of violence.
-Chuck Aule: Now, that’s a hell of an assumption to make.
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: No assumption, no, not at all. You misunderstand me. I said, you are ‘men of violence’. I’m not accusing you of being violent men. That’s quite different.” –‘Shutter Island’.
22- “-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: You both served overseas, huh?
-Chuck Aule: It’s not much of a stretch, Doc. For all you know, we’re both paper pushers over there.
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: No, you are not. – Since the schoolyard, neither of you has ever walked away from a physical conflict. No, no, not because you enjoyed it, but because retreat isn’t something you consider an option.
-Chuck Aule: We weren’t raised to run, Doc.
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Ah, yes. Raised. And who raised you, Marshal?
-Teddy Daniels: Me? Wolves.
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Very impressive defense mechanisms.” –‘Shutter Island’.
23- “-Teddy Daniels: Soda and ice, please, thanks.
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Oh. You don’t indulge in alcohol? I’m surprised. Isn’t it common for men in your profession to imbibe?
-Teddy Daniels: Common enough. And… in yours?
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Er… I’m sorry?
-Teddy Daniels: Your profession, Doctor, psychiatry.
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Yes?
-Teddy Daniels: I always heard it was overrun with boozers and drunks.
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Not that I noticed.
-Teddy Daniels: What’s that, ice tea in your glass there?
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Excellent, Marshal. You have outstanding defense mechanisms. You must be quite adept at interrogations.” –‘Shutter Island’.
24- “-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Did you know that the word ‘trauma’ comes from the Greek for ‘wound’? Hm? And what is the German word for ‘dream’? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn’t you agree, when you see a monster, you… you must stop it?
-Teddy Daniels: Yeah… I agree.” –‘Shutter Island’.
25- “-Chuck Aule: You okay boss?
-Teddy Daniels: Yeah fine, I just ah, I just can’t, can’t stomach the water.” –‘Shutter Island’.
26-” -Chuck Aule: Nice music, who is that, Brahms?
-Teddy Daniels: No. It’s Mahler.” –‘Shutter Island’.
27- “-Teddy Daniels: They’re experimenting on people here.
-Chuck Aule: I don’t know, boss. How can you believe a crazy guy?
-Teddy Daniels: That’s the beauty of it. Mental Patients make the perfect subjects, if they talk nobody listens to them!” –‘Shutter Island’.
28- “-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Men like you are my specialty, you know. Men of violence.
-Chuck Aule: Now, that’s a hell of an assumption to make.
-Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: No assumption, no, not at all. You misunderstand me. I said, you are ‘men of violence’. I’m not accusing you of being violent men. That’s quite different.” –‘Shutter Island’.
29- “-Chuck Aule: All I know is it’s a mental hospital.
-Teddy Daniels: …for the criminally insane.” –‘Shutter Island’.
30- “-Teddy Daniels: So, what’s our next move?
-Chuck Aule: You tell me.
-Teddy Daniels: I gotta get off this rock, Chuck. Get back to the mainland. Whatever the hell’s going on here, it’s bad.
-Teddy Daniels: Don’t worry, partner, they’re not gonna catch us.
-Chuck Aule: That’s right, we’re too smart for ’em.
-Teddy Daniels: Yeah, we are, aren’t we?
-Teddy Daniels: You know, this place makes me wonder.
-Chuck Aule: Yeah, what’s that, boss?
-Teddy Daniels: Which would be worse – to live as a monster? Or to die as a good man?” –‘Shutter Island’.
