Shawshank Redemption Quotes: The Shawshank Redemption tells the story of the world that two prisoners, Andy and Red, build behind bars.
Shawshank Redemption Quotes
1. “If you’ve come this far, maybe you’re willing to come a little further.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
2. “I must admit I didn’t think much of Andy first time I laid eyes on him; looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over. That was my first impression of the man.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
3. “The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
4. “It’s my life. Don’t you understand? It’s my life!” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
5. “Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes, really. Pressure and time.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
6. “A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
7. “These walls are funny. First you hate ’em. Then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
8. “In prison, a man’ll do most anything to keep his mind occupied.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
9. “Most new fish come close to madness the first night. Somebody always breaks down crying… The only question is, who’s it going to be? It’s as good a thing to bet on as any, I guess. I had my money on Andy Dufresne.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
10. “The man likes to play chess; let’s get him some rocks.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
11. “We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
12. “They send you here for life, that’s exactly what they’re taking.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
13. “I’d hate to deprive you of this. Salvation lies within.” – Warden Samuel Norton, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
14. “Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
15. “All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won’t have to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
16. “Tommy Williams: I don’t read so good.
Andy Dufresne: Well.
Andy Dufresne: You don’t read so well. Uh, we’ll get to that.” -‘Shawshank Redemption’.
17. “Bad luck, I guess. It floats around. It’s got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that’s all.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
18. “What was right with him he’d only give you a little at a time. What was wrong with him he kept bottled up inside.”– Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
19. “I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. ” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
20. “Andy Dufresne: Thirty years. Jesus, when you say it like that…
Red: …You wonder where it went.” -‘Shawshank Redemption’.
21. “That’s the beauty of music. They can’t take that away from you.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
22. “I wish I could tell you Andy fought the good fight. I wish I could tell you that… But prison is no fairy tale world.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
23. “Red: Everybody’s innocent in here.
Andy Dufresne: What about you?
Red: Only guilty man in Shawshank.” -‘Shawshank Redemption’.
24. “I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can’t.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
25. “Fear can hold you, prisoner. Hope can set you free.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
26. “Andy: I understand you’re a man who knows how to get things.
Red: I’m known to locate certain things from time to time.” -‘Shawshank Redemption’.
27. “The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.” – Brooks Hatlen, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
28. “I was in the path of the tornado… I just didn’t expect the storm would last as long as it has.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
29. “I believe in two things, discipline and the Bible… Here you’ll receive both.” – Warden Samuel Norton, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
30. “I don’t waste time on losers, Tommy.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
31. “It goes back to what I said about Andy wearing his freedom like an invisibility coat, about how he never really developed a prison mentality. His eyes never got that dull look.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
32. “Andy Dufresne: You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
Red: No.
Andy Dufresne: They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.” -‘Shawshank Redemption’.
33. “Yes, sir. Absolutely. I’ve learned my lesson. I can honestly say I’m a changed man. I’m no longer a danger to society. That’s the God’s honest truth. No doubt about it.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
34. “I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. ”– Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
35. “I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had a quiet way about him, a walk and a talk that just wasn’t normal around here. He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
36. “You need it so you don’t forget. Forget that there are places in the world that aren’t made out of stone. That there’s a – there’s a – there’s something inside that’s yours, that they can’t touch.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
37. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
38. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” – Andy Dufresne, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
39. “I like to think the last thing that went through his head other than that bullet, was how the hell that Andy Dufresne got the best of him.” – Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, ‘Shawshank Redemption’.
40. “You strike me as a particularly icy and remorseless man, Mr. Dufresne. It chills my blood just to look at you. By the power vested in me by the state of Maine, I hereby order you to serve two life sentences, back to back. One for each of your victims. So be it.” – Judge, ‘Shawshank Redemption’
