50 Quotes from The Shawshank Redemption Offering Life Lessons
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1–10: Lessons on Hope
- “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
- “Remember, Red, hope is a good thing.”
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
- “That’s it! Step aside, kid, and watch a man work.”
- “Hope can drive a man insane.”
- “Hope is something they can’t take away from you.”
- “It comes down to a simple choice.”
- “Some birds aren't meant to be caged.”
- “There are places in the world that aren't made out of stone.”
- “A man feels more like a man if he’s got a bottle of suds.”
11–20: Lessons on Freedom and the Human Spirit
- “That’s it! That’s the spirit!”
- “You can’t stop what’s coming.”
- “I guess it comes down to a simple choice.”
- “Prison is no fairy-tale world.”
- “They send you here for life, and that’s exactly what they take.”
- “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
- “I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged.”
- “I tell you, these walls are funny.”
- “First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em.”
- “That's institutionalized.”
21–30: Lessons on Friendship and Loyalty
- “Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of…”
- “Andy was the part of me they could never take.”
- “We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders.”
- “I liked to think the last thing that went through his head…”
- “I hope I can make it across the border.”
- “I hope I can see my friend and shake his hand.”
- “That’s it, Red. That’s where I’m going.”
- “Andy made the best of it, you know?”
- “That’s what friends do.”
- “Red, if you ever get out…”
31–40: Lessons on Patience, Persistence, and Change
- “Pressure and time.”
- “That’s all it takes really.”
- “Geology is the study of pressure and time.”
- “A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye.”
- “That’s how it is here.”
- “That’s how it starts.”
- “Every man has his breaking point.”
- “The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.”
- “A man’s gotta have something to hold on to.”
- “The library has grown.”
41–50: Lessons on Redemption and Second Chances
- “I’m a changed man.”
- “Rehabilitated? It’s just a made-up word.”
- “I look back on the way I was then.”
- “I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still.”
- “I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel.”
- “I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.”
- “I hope.”
- “Maybe it’s because I’m older now.”
- “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about.”
- “That’s the beauty of music. They can’t take that from you.”
