The best Quotes from The Matrix

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

Already I can see the chain reaction. The chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.

Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Everything that has a beginning has an end.

Touch me and that hand will never touch anything again.

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?

I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.

I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth; the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy, and delicious. After nine years.. you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss!

Billions of people just living out their lives oblivious.

Still using all the muscles except the one that matters?

You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality. Action, reaction. Cause and effect.

Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.

I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with.

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.

Trinity: "You said it was suicide."
Morpheus: "Then let us hope that I was wrong."

I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me but because of the path that lies behind me.

What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals, interpreted by your brain.

You've already made the choice. You're here to understand why you've made it.

What do all men with power want? More power.

The Oracle: "Candy?"
Neo: "Do you already know if I'm going to take it?"
The Oracle: "Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't."

Commander Lock: "Dammit, Morpheus. Not everyone believes what you believe."
Morpheus: "My beliefs do not require them to."

This is the first day of the rest of your life. But if you want it, you gotta fight for it.

Neo: "Am I crazy?"
Therapist: "We don't use that word in here."

Being The One is just like being in love. No one can tell you you're in love, you just know it.

Morpheus: "Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: "No."
Morpheus: "Why not?"
Neo: "Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life."

The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream, Neo? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

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. 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.

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.

Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

Would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?

Stop trying to hit me and hit me!

All of our lives, we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it. Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We have not come here by chance. I do not believe in chance. When I see three objectives, three captains, three ships. I do not see coincidence, I see providence. I see purpose. I believe it our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds for each and every one of us, the very meaning of our lives.