What is the last line of Shawshank Redemption?

The ending is an odd one in Shawshank, so odd, in fact, that the movie took creative license to clarify certain details that Mr. King left out (Hollywood hates leaving us hanging.). The story ends with Red telling us about Andy's escape, which is followed by a postscript saying he's been paroled, has found a bunch of cash Andy left for him, and is heading down to Mexico to find him. There's no word on whether he gets there, though he uses the word "hope" a lot during the last few sentences:

I hope Andy is down there. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope. (541-544)

Four sentences, five "hopes." The story stresses the power of hope throughout—Hope that things will get better in a tough world, hope that a jerk like Warden Norton will get what he deserves, hope that the heroes will die on a beach in the Pacific instead getting gang-raped in the shower of a Maine prison.

Hope is strongest when there's no resolution; if we find out what happens, we're not hopeful, only relieved. So when King keeps us from finding out if Red really makes it across the border. He just leaves us feeling… well, you know.

On a more literary level, it also keeps with King's general dedication to realism. Supposedly, Red is writing his story down and leaving it somewhere, suggesting that he's a real con with a real tale to tell. If he were actually about to break parole and escape to Mexico, he wouldn't come back to his diary to tell us if he got there or not. So not only does Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption's cliffhanger ending serve a useful point, it helps keep the book's overall "this could really happen" vibe intact.

Unless you’ve lived under a rock, or dislike great movies, chances are you’ve probably seen The Shawshank Redemption. At least once! The story of a banker convicted of a double homicide, Andy Dufresne maintains his innocence and finds a way of surviving 19 years of harsh prison life, all the while creating an unlikely bond with fellow convict Ellis “Red” Redding. Regarded as one of the best adaptation of any of Stephen King’s work till today, The Shawshank Redemption has found a special place in our nostalgia-loving hearts.

The film, which got seven Academy Awards nominations and was criminally robbed in every category, is also full of great lines. While many of them were lifted directly from King’s novella, some of them were written by director Frank Darabont himself. Either way, they are inspirational, real, and usually delivered in a bluntly beautiful way.

Here are the best quotes from The Shawshank Redemption that’ll strike you with nostalgia once again.

1. Andy Dufresne -“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

2. Red– “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.”

3. Brooks– “The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.”

4. Red– “There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret. Not because I’m in here, or because you think I should. 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. That kid’s long gone and this old man is all that’s left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It’s just a bullshit word. So you can go and stamp your form, Sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don’t give a shit.”

5. Andy Dufresne– “I guess it comes down to a simple choice.  Get busy living or get busy dying.”

6. Red– “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can’t be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away. And for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.”

7. Andy Dufresne– “Bad luck, I guess. It floats around. It’s got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that’s all.”

8. The Warden– “Salvation lies within”

9. Red– “They send you here for life, that’s exactly what they’re taking”.

10. Andy– “You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?”
Red- “No”
Andy- “They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

11. Red– “I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”

And at last, how can we forget the most iconic dialogue:

12. Red– “Andy Dufresne, the man who crawled through 500 yards of shit and came out clean the other end.”

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