The Matrix Quotes

“Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

Morpheus, The Matrix”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Morpheus, The Matrix”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

Morpheus, The Matrix”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it

Morpheus, The Matrix”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Morpheus, The Matrix”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
― Andy Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“Welcome to the desert of the real.

Morpheus, The Matrix”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“The body cannot live without the mind.

Morpheus, The Matrix”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“I believe that the Matrix can remain our cage or it can become our chrysalis, ... That to be free, you cannot change your cage. You have to change yourself.
When I used to look out at this world, all I could see was its edges, its boundaries, its rules and controls, its leaders and laws. But now, I see another world. A different world where all things are possible. A world of hope. Of peace.
I can't tell you how to get there,
but I know if you can free your mind, you'll find a way.”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix Screenplay

“What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“NEO
What truth?
MORPHEUS
That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, kept in a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind.”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix: The Shooting Script

“Mr. Smith said it best in the Matrix: “I’d like to share a revelation that I have had during my time here, it came to me when I tried to classify your species, I realized that you are not actually mammals, every mammal on this planet instinctively develop a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not, you move to an area and you multiply, multiply until every natural resource is consumed, the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern, do you know what it is? A virus, human beings are a disease, a caner of this planet you are a plague we are the cure…”
― Lana Wachowski, The Matrix Screenplay