25 quotes from the movie The Matrix that will make you question your perceptions

Welcome to the desert of the real.

The Matrix is everywhere. It’s all around us, even now.

If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, taste, see, then “real” is simply electrical signals interpreted by the brain.

I don’t like the idea of not being in control of my life.

As long as the Matrix continues to exist, the human race will never be free.

The denial of our own impulses is exactly what makes us human.

Human beings are a disease, the cancer of this planet.

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

Throughout human history, we have depended on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, cannot exist without a sense of irony.

The body cannot live without the mind.

Don’t try to bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, just try to realize the truth. There is no such spoon. Then you will see that it is not the spoon that bends, but you.

If you take the blue pill, you will wake up in your bed and be able to believe what you want. But if you take the red, you’ll stay in Wonderland and I’ll show you the depths of the rabbit hole.

Human beings define reality through misfortune and suffering.

I hate giving bad news to good people.

Did you know that the first Matrix was created to be the perfect human world, where no one would suffer, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster.

You had your time. The future is our world.

All mammals on the planet instinctively come into balance with the environment. But not humans. You go to an area and multiply until all the natural resources are used up.

Freedom, truth, peace or maybe love? They are illusions, fantasies of perception, temporary syntheses of a feeble human intellect desperately trying to explain an existence without meaning or purpose.

There are levels of survival that we are prepared to accept.

I really should thank you, for it was your life that showed me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to finish!

Everything that has a beginning, has an end.

The ignorance is a blessing.

You are a slave. Like everyone. You were born into captivity, you were born into a prison that you cannot feel or touch. A prison for your mind.

I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to start. I’m going to hang up this phone and I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’ll show them a world without you. A world without rules and control, without limits and borders. A world where anything is possible.