Shawshank Redemption Quotes

“oh shit it's shit”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure and bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off the walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of the two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you are doing by how well you sleep at night...and what your dreams are like.”
― Stephen King Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“Writing about yourself seems to be a lot like sticking a branch into clear river-water and rolling up the muddy bottom.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“I hope I can make or across the border. I hope the pacific is as blue as it is in my dreams. I hope I get to see my friend. I hope...”
― Stephen King

“That's how, on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate-factory roof in 1950 ending up sitting in a row at ten o'clock on a spring morning, drinking Black Label beer supplied by the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank Prison. That beer was piss-warm, but it was still the best I ever had in my life. We sat and drank it and felt the sun on our shoulders, and not even the expression of half-amusement, half-contempt on Hadley's face - as if he was watching apes drink beer instead of men - could spoil it. It lasted twenty minutes, that beer-break, and for those twenty minutes we felt like free men. We could have been drinking beer and tarring the roof of one of our own houses.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“But there's really no question. It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living or get busy dying”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“You may remember the old question, the one that's supposed to define your outlook on life when you answer it. For Byron Hadley the answer would always be half empty, the glass is half empty. Forever and ever, amen. If you gave him a cool drink of apple cider, he'd think about vinegar. If you told him his wife
had always been faithful to him, he'd tell you it was because she was so damn ugly.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Remember that hope is a good thing,... maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons