The best Quotes from The Shining

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

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

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.

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

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

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.

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

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

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

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

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.

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

'I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?' She studied him, her eyes grave. 'Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.'

Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Time is a face on the water

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

The stories you were told about monsters, nightmares, legends whispered around campfires. They are all true.

We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realised they were inside us.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

Hello, everyone. It's time to play a game. You all pretended to cure me. But what I have planned for each of you is very real.

Dewey Riley: "Do you have a gun?"
Sidney Prescott: "I'm Sidney Prescott. Natürlich hab ich ne Waffe."

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

We all wear masks. We all pretend. Presenting a perfect illusion on the outside, while we desperately try to hide who we are on the inside.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Erin: "I didn't go to Mexico to watch you get sh-t-faced for four days."
Kemper: "That's what you do in Mexico!"

I used to think you were like me. You were attracted to the darkness. But, Tate you are the darkness.

Bruce: "You remember what I told you?"
Finney Shaw: "That some day I have to stand up for myself."
Bruce: "Some day is today, Fin."

All sad people like poetry. Happy people like songs.