Great Quotes from
The Matrix
"You like watching him, don't you? We're going
to kill him. Do you hear me?"
--- Cypher
This quote isn't in regard to a planned murder, rather it's a statement of Cypher's belief that Neo isn't The One and that by interfering in his life Neo will meet an untimely demise.
Agent Smith: "Lieutenant, you were given specific
orders--"
... "The orders were for your protection"
Lieutenant: "I think we can handle one little girl. I sent two
units.
They're bringing her down now."
Agent Smith: "No Lieutenant, your men are already dead."
NEO
WAKE UP, NEO...
THE MATRIX HAS YOU.
FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT
KNOCK, KNOCK, NEO
Trinity: "My name is Trinity."
Neo: "Trinity? The Trinity? Who cracked the IRS d-base?"
Trinity: "That was a long time ago"
Neo: "Jesus!"
Trinity: "What?"
Neo: "I just thought... you were a guy."
Trinity: "Most guys do."
Trinity: "When I found him he told me that it was not him I was searching for, but an answer to a question. You know the question as well as I do."
Neo: "What is the Matrix?"
Trinity: "The truth is out there, Neo. It's looking
for you and it will find you --
if you want it to."
"As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson
It seems that you have been living two lives. In one life you are Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, you pay your taxes and ... you help your landlady ... take out her garbage.
The other life is lived in computers where you go by the hacker alias Neo, and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for.
One of these lives has a future. The other, does
not."
-- Agent Smith
"What is the Matrix?
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix
is.
You have to see it for yourself."
-- Morpheus
"Do you want to know ... what ... it... is?"
"The Matrix is everywhere. It's all around us. Here even, in this room. You can see it when you look out your window. You can see it when you watch your TV. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church, or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been poulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
That you are a slave, Neo. That you, like everyone
else, were born into bondage... kept inside a prison you cannot see, touch
or smell. A prison for your mind."
-- Morpheus
"This is your last chance. After this there is no going back.
You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake up in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland, and I show you just how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Remember, all that I am offering is the Truth. Nothing
more."
-- Morpheus
"Buckle your seatbelt Dorothy. Because Kansas,
is going bye-bye!"
-- Morpheus
"Welcome... to the real world."
-- Morpheus
"What is real? How do you define real? If you're
talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell or see, then all
you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain."
-- Morpheus
"Welcome... to the desert of... the real."
-- Morpheus
Neo:" I know Kung Fu."
Morpheus: "Show me."
"This is the sparring program. It is similar to
the programmed reality of the Matrix. It is like any computer system. There
are rules which govern it. Like the law of gravity. Some rules can be bent.
Some can be broken. Do you understand?"
-- Morpheus
Morpheus: "How did I beat you?"
Neo: "You -- You;re too fast"
Morpheus: "Do you think that my being faster, stronger, has anything
to
do with my muscles in this place?"
"Do you believe that is air you are breathing now?"
"Hmmm..."
"You're faster than this. Don't think you are.
Know you are."
-- Morpheus
"Everyone falls the first time."
-- Cypher
"After nine years, you know what I've realized?
Ignorance is bliss..."
-- Cypher
"Everyone, please observe that that no smoking
and seat belt signs have been turned on. Please ensure your seatbelts are
fastened and your table trays are locked in the upright position. Now sit
back, and enjoy the ride."
-- Tank
SpoonBoy: "Do not try and bend the spoon. For that
is impossible.
Instead, only try and realize the truth."
Neo: "The truth?"
SpoonBoy: "That there is no spoon. When you understand this you
will see that is not the spoon that bends; only yourself."
"I'm sorry kid. You've got the Gift. But it looks
like you're waiting for something."
"Who knows? You next life maybe?"
-- The Oracle
"Don't hate me Trinity. I'm just the messenger.
And right now I'm going to prove that the message is true. If Morpheus
was right, then there's no way I can pull this plug, is there. If he is
the One , then it'll take some kind of miracle to stop me. I mean, how
can he be the One... if he's dead? Right? I don't believe it!"
-- Cypher
"Believe this you piece of shit! You're gonna burn!"
- Tank
"Morpheus risked his life because he believed that
I am something I am not. I am not The One, Trinity. The Oracle hit me with
that one too." ... "Morpheus risked his life for what he believed
in. I have to go back, because I believe in something too -- I believe
I can bring him back."
- Neo
"Have you ever stood and stared at it, Morpheus? Marvelled at its beauty... its genius? Billions of people, just living out their lives... oblivious.
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost.
Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.
The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.
I say 'your civilization' because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about.
Evolution, Morpheus. Evolution. Like the dinosaur. Humans
had their time.
The future is our time, Morpheus. Our time."
-- Agent Smith
"I'd like to share with you a revelation that I've
had during my time here.
It came to me when I tried to classify your species.
I realized humans are not actually mammals.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and 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.
You are a plague.
And we... are the cure."
-- Agent Smith
Tank: "OK. Store's open. What do you need?"
Neo: "Guns. Lots of guns."
Trinity: "No one has ever done anything like this
before."
Neo: "That's why its going to work."
Agent Jones: "Only human..."
Trinity: "Dodge this!"
Neo: "Can you fly that thing?"
Trinity: "Not yet."
Tank: "Operator..."
Trinity: "Tank, I need a pilot program for a military M-109 helicopter."
Trinity: "Lets go."
"Do you believe it now Trinity?"
-- Morpheus
"You will come to see, Neo, as I have, that there
is a difference between knowing the path... and walking the path."
-- Morpheus
"There's something I have to tell you. Everything
the Oracle told me has come true. With the exception of this..."
-- Trinity
Trinity: "What is he doing?"
Neo: "He's starting... to believe."
"Do you hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the
sound of inevitability.
It is the sound of your death.Goodbye, Mr. Anderson."
-- Agent Smith
"OK, Mr. Wizard. Get me the Hell out of here!"
-- Neo
"You can't be dead, Neo. Do you hear me? The Oracle told me that I would fall in love. And that person, that I fell in love with, would be The One. So you see, you can't be dead. Because I love you, Neo. I love you.
Now, get up!"
-- Trinity
" I know that you're out there. And that you're
afraid. Afraid of what is to come.
I didn't come here to tell you how things are going to end. I came to tell
you how things are going to begin. I'm going to show people a world where
you don't exist. I'm going to show people a world without rules. A world
without boundaries. A world without you."
-- Neo
Tank! I need an exit!