Morpheus Quotes

There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

What is real? How do you define ‘real’?

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

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.

Do you believe in fate, Neo?

You think that’s air you’re breathing?

The Matrix is a system, Neo, and that system is our enemy.

You have to understand, most of these people don’t want to see the truth. They’re afraid of what they’ll find out.

I’m trying to wake you up, Neo. But unfortunately, you seem to be in a deep sleep.

There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

The body cannot live without the mind.

Neo, 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.

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.

I’ll try to explain. You’re here because you know something. 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.

Neo, 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.

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

The Matrix is everywhere. It’s all around us, even in this very room.

You have a look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up.

Stop trying to hit me and hit me!

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.

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

The Matrix is a system, Neo, and 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.

Welcome to the desert of the real.

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

Some things never change, and some do.

Never send a human to do a machine’s job.

There is no spoon.

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.

The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.

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.

You’re cuter than I thought. I can see why she liked you.

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.

The Oracle will see you now.

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.

Do you believe in fate, Neo?

I’m not here to tell you how this is going to end. I’m here to tell you how it’s going to begin.

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.

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

Don’t think you are, know you are.

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

Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

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’re 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.

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

Neo, 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.