The Matrix is a 1999 science-fiction film directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski. The screenplay was written by Larry and Andy Wachowski, while the music was composed by Don Davis. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.
The movie takes place in a dystopian future in which humanity is kept in check through human minds connected to machines that feed on human bioelectricity for power. The rebels seeking to free humanity from the control of machines are called “Neo,” humans freed from the Matrix who can see all around them the systems of power imposed on their reality.
The Matrix is an example of a cyberpunk dystopia with themes of individualism versus the machine society gained. The movie is filled with symbolism and metaphor, so it’s essential to pay attention and not miss anything!
The following are the most inspiring matrix quotes that will awake your mind and give you powerful life lessons.
73 Matrix Quotes That Will Awake Your Mindset
“What do all men with power want? More power.” ― The Oracle
“I’m going to show them a world…. without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries; a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.” ― Neo
“You do not truly know someone until you fight them.” ― Matrix
“I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life.” ― Neo
“The machines don’t care how old I am. They’ll kill me just the same.” ― Kid
“The body cannot live without the mind.” ― Morpheus
“You have to let it all go. fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.” ― Morpheus
“The only way you’re getting through this door is over my big dead ass.” ― Q-Ball Gang Member #1
“We’re willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start. All that we’re asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.” ― Agent Smith
“If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” ― Morpheus
“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
“There’s no escaping reason, no denying purpose. Because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.” ― Agent Smith
“Your mind makes it real.” ― Morpheus
“We can never see past the choices we don’t understand.” ― Matrix
“To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.” ― Matrix
“Remember, all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.” ― Morpheus
“It’s tough to get any more obvious than that.” ― Oracle
“You played a very dangerous game.” ― The Architect
“Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.” ― The Architect
“Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.” ― The Architect
“I know, that’s why it’s going to work.” ― Neo
“What’s really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn’t said anything?” ― Oracle
“Don’t think you are. Know you are.” ― Matrix
“The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. A prison for your mind.” ― Morpheus
“The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.” ― Morpheus
“The body cannot live without the mind” ― Morpheus
“I don’t. I expect just what I’ve always expected, for you to make up your own damn mind. Believe me or don’t” ― Oracle
“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” ― Morpheus
“Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming. I see the darkness spreading. I see death. And you are all that stands in his way.” ― Oracle
“Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.” ― Morpheus
“Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious.” ― Agent Smith
“Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.” ― Morpheus
“You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken.” ― Rhineheart
“Ignorance is bliss.” ― Cypher
“You got the gift, but it looks like you’re waiting for something – your next life maybe, who knows?” The Oracle
“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
“Karma is a word, like love. A way of saying, “What I am here to do.” I do not resent my karma. I’m grateful for it. Grateful for my wonderful wife, for my beautiful daughter. They are gifts, and so I do what I must do to honor them.” ― Rama-Kandra
“Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.” ― Morpheus
“Welcome to the desert of the real” ― Morpheus
“It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not.” ― Agent Smith
“The answer is out there, Neo, and it’s looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.” ― Trinity
“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” ― Morpheus
“It is the question that drives us.” ― Matrix
“I didn’t say it would be easy. Just said it would be the truth.” ― Morpheus
“The real test for any choice is having to make the same choice again knowing fully well what it might cost.” ― Matrix
“I thought it wasn’t real. Your mind makes it real.” ― Matrix
“That’s how it is with people. Nobody cares how it works as long as it works.” ― Councillor Hamann
“Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize, just as I did, there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” ― Morpheus
“Being the one is just like being in love, no one can tell you you’re in love, you just know it.” ― The Oracle
“I’ll show these people what you don’t want them to see. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible.” ― Neo
“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. 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.” ― Morpheus
“Welcome to the desert of the real.” ― Morpheus
“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.” ― Morpheus
“I don’t know what he (Neo) can do to save us. But I do know that as long as there is a single breath left in his body he will not give up and neither can we.” ― Morpheus
“I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.” ― Agent Smith
“Ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or dreaming?” ― Neo
“What is ‘real’ How do you define real?” Morpheus
“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 cancer of this planet.” ― Agent Smith
“Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions….” ― Agent Brown
“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy.” ― Morpheus
“You ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or dreaming?” Neo
“You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that’s not far from the truth.” ― Morpheus
“Cause and effect, my love.” ― Persephone
“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.” ― Morpheus
“I must get out of here. I must get free.” ―Smith
“Ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or dreaming?.” ― Neo
“Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.” ― Merovingian
“Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure it was real? What if you were unable to awake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?” Morpheus
“What’s really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn’t said anything?.” ― The Oracle
“Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? You think that’s air you’re breathing now?”― Morpheus
“Human beings are a disease, cancer of this planet.” ― Agent Smith
“It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.” ― Merovingian
