40 The Shining Quotes from Stephen King's Novel and the Movie Adaption

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Few stories in horror history have left a mark as deep as The Shining. First published as a novel by Stephen King in 1977, and later made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, the story has given readers and viewers some of the most chilling lines in the genre. The Shining quotes come from both versions, and each one carries its own weight and tone.

The story follows Jack Torrance, a writer who moves with his wife Wendy and their young son Danny to the remote Overlook Hotel during winter. In the novel, King builds tension slowly through Jack's thoughts and inner voice. In the film, Jack Nicholson brings those same dark impulses to life on screen. Both versions tell the same story of isolation and madness, but each does it in its own way.

In this article, we have gathered some of the most famous The Shining quotes. that are still remember today. If you love this novel and movie, read on to find famous lines that will take you to some of the most memorable scene of the movie.

1. “Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”

2. “Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”

3. “The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”

4. “She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”

5. “But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”

6. “Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

7. “Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”

8. “I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.”

9. “We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”

10. “Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.”

11. “You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”

12. “The sleep of reason breeds monsters.”

13. “How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.”

14. “The wheels of progress; sooner or later they took you back to where you started from.”

15. “When we grow up, concepts gradually get easier and we leave the images to the poets”

16. “But it was a dreadful kind of curiosity, the kind that makes you peek through your fingers during the scariest parts of a scary movie.”

17. “We all remember our pleasant dreams more clearly than the scary ones.”

18. “Dying was a part of living. You had to keep tuning in to that if you expected to be a whole person. And if the fact of your own death was hard to understand, at least it wasn’t impossible to accept.”

19. “If you’re not bolted together tightly, you’re gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.”

20. “How I wish you were fear.”

1. "All work and no play makes Jack a full boy." - Jack

2. "Here's Johnny!" - Jack

3. "You have always been the caretaker." - Delbert Grady

4. "Danny's not here, Mrs. Torrance." - Tony

5. "Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in!" - Jack Torrance

6. "Redrum. Redrum. REDRUM!" - Danny Torrance

7. "Hello, Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever... and ever... and ever." - Grady Daughter

8. "Here's to five miserable months on the wagon, and all the irreparable harm it has caused me." - Jack Torrance

9. "I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter." - Jack Torrance

10. "I think a lot of things happened in this particular hotel over the years... and not all of them was good." - Dick Hallorann

11. "Your wife appears to be stronger than we imagined, Mr. Torrance. Somewhat more... resourceful." - Mr. Grady

12. "I'd give my godd**ned soul for just a glass of beer." - Jack

13. "Remember what Mr. Hallorann said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny. It isn't real." - Tony

14. "Hi, Lloyd. A little slow tonight, isn't it?" - Jack

15. "Larry, just between you and me, we got a very serious problem with the people taking care of the place. They turned out to be completely unreliable a**holes." - Dick Hallorann

16. "I'll just set my bourbon and advocaat down right there." - Jack Torrance:

17. "Nah! Nothing serious. Just a little problem with the old sperm bank upstairs." - Jack Torrance

18. "Good man. You set 'em up, and I'll knock 'em back - one by one." - Jack Torrance

19. "The loser has to keep America clean!" - Wendy Torrance

20. Dick Hallorann: Mrs. Torrance, your husband introduced you as Winifred. Now, are you a Winnie or a Freddy?

Wendy Torrance: I'm a Wendy.

Dick Hallorann: Oh. That's nice. That's the prettiest.