diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/win_lineinfile_newlines.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/win_lineinfile_newlines.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d6eeb0917b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/win_lineinfile_newlines.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_lineinfile - fixed issue where \r and \n as a string was converted to newline (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35100)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/windows/win_lineinfile.ps1 b/lib/ansible/modules/windows/win_lineinfile.ps1
index 134bee385a4..258bded441e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/windows/win_lineinfile.ps1
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/windows/win_lineinfile.ps1
@@ -1,25 +1,9 @@
 #!powershell
-# This file is part of Ansible
-#
-# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-# WANT_JSON
-# POWERSHELL_COMMON
-
-
-# Write lines to a file using the specified line separator and encoding,
-# performing validation if a validation command was specified.
+
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+#Requires -Module Ansible.ModuleUtils.Legacy
+
 function WriteLines($outlines, $path, $linesep, $encodingobj, $validate, $check_mode) {
 	Try {
 		$temppath = [System.IO.Path]::GetTempFileName();
@@ -342,15 +326,6 @@ If ($newline -eq "unix") {
 	$linesep = "`n";
 }
 
-# Fix any CR/LF literals in the line argument. PS will not recognize either backslash
-# or backtick literals in the incoming string argument without this bit of black magic.
-If ($line) {
-	$line = $line.Replace("\r", "`r");
-	$line = $line.Replace("\n", "`n");
-	$line = $line.Replace("``r", "`r");
-	$line = $line.Replace("``n", "`n");
-}
-
 # Figure out the proper encoding to use for reading / writing the target file.
 
 # The default encoding is UTF-8 without BOM
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/windows/win_lineinfile.py b/lib/ansible/modules/windows/win_lineinfile.py
index 686d1deeec1..4294f50c433 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/windows/win_lineinfile.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/windows/win_lineinfile.py
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ options:
     description:
       - Required for C(state=present). The line to insert/replace into the file. If C(backrefs) is set, may contain backreferences that will get
         expanded with the C(regexp) capture groups if the regexp matches.
+      - Be aware that the line is processed first on the controller and thus is dependent on yaml quoting rules. Any double quoted line
+        will have control characters, such as '\r\n', expanded. To print such characters literally, use single or no quotes.
   backrefs:
     required: false
     default: "no"
@@ -123,6 +125,11 @@ notes:
 
 EXAMPLES = r'''
 # Before 2.3, option 'dest', 'destfile' or 'name' was used instead of 'path'
+- name: insert path without converting \r\n
+  win_lineinfile:
+    path: c:\file.txt
+    line: c:\return\new
+
 - win_lineinfile:
     path: C:\temp\example.conf
     regexp: '^name='
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/win_lineinfile/files/test_linebreak.txt b/test/integration/targets/win_lineinfile/files/test_linebreak.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/win_lineinfile/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/win_lineinfile/tasks/main.yml
index cd995c11916..a1d9622535e 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/win_lineinfile/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/win_lineinfile/tasks/main.yml
@@ -638,3 +638,66 @@
   assert:
     that:
     - "result.stat.checksum == '66a72e71f42c4775f4326da95cfe82c8830e5022'"
+
+#########################################################################
+# issue #33858
+# \r\n causes line break instead of printing literally which breaks paths.
+
+- name: create testing file
+  win_copy:
+    src: test_linebreak.txt
+    dest: "{{win_output_dir}}/test_linebreak.txt"
+
+- name: stat the test file
+  win_stat:
+    path: "{{win_output_dir}}/test_linebreak.txt"
+  register: result
+
+# (Get-FileHash -path C:\ansible\test\integration\targets\win_lineinfile\files\test_linebreak.txt -Algorithm sha1).hash.tolower()
+- name: check win_stat file result
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - result.stat.exists
+      - not result.stat.isdir
+      - result.stat.checksum == 'da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709'
+      - result is not failed
+      - result is not changed
+
+- name: insert path c:\return\new to test file
+  win_lineinfile:
+    dest: "{{win_output_dir}}/test_linebreak.txt"
+    line: c:\return\new
+  register: result_literal
+
+- name: insert path "c:\return\new" to test file, will cause line breaks
+  win_lineinfile:
+    dest: "{{win_output_dir}}/test_linebreak.txt"
+    line: "c:\return\new"
+  register: result_expand
+
+- name: assert that the lines were inserted
+  assert:
+    that:
+    - result_literal.changed == true
+    - result_literal.msg == 'line added'
+    - result_expand.changed == true
+    - result_expand.msg == 'line added'
+
+- name: stat the test file
+  win_stat:
+    path: "{{win_output_dir}}/test_linebreak.txt"
+  register: result
+
+- debug:
+    var: result
+    verbosity: 1
+
+# expect that the file looks like this:
+# c:\return\new
+# c:
+# eturn
+# ew #or c:eturnew  on windows
+- name: assert that one line is literal and the other has breaks
+  assert:
+    that:
+    - result.stat.checksum == 'd2dfd11bc70526ff13a91153c76a7ae5595a845b'