50 Quotes From Inception

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Christopher Nolan took ten years to write his screenplay for “Inception”.  The movie is all about ripples of actions, about fighting our way through dreams within dreams which all converge in multiple realities. It could be interpreted as a commentary about the age of hyperreality and virtual realities that distort our senses.

inception Qoutes by Cobb about dreams

Downward is the only way forward

1.“Downward is the only way forward.”- Cobb

2.“I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.” – Cobb

They say we only use a fraction of our brain’s true potential.

3.“They say we only use a fraction of our brain’s true potential.”- Cobb

4.“Now you listen to me if you jump you’re not going to wake up, remember?”-Cobb

She locked away a secret, deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true…but chose to forget.

5.”She locked away a secret, deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true…but chose to forget.”- Cobb

6. “I can’t stay with her anymore because she doesn’t exist.”- Cobb

Let me ask you a question: You never remember the beginning of your dreams, do you? You just turn up in the middle of what’s going on.

7.”Let me ask you a question: You never remember the beginning of your dreams, do you? You just turn up in the middle of what’s going on.”- Cobb

8. “My subconscious feels that someone else is creating the world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections converge on you.”- Cobb

They say we only use a fraction of our brain’s true potential. Now, that’s when we’re awake. When we’re asleep, we can do almost anything.

9.“They say we only use a fraction of our brain’s true potential. Now, that’s when we’re awake. When we’re asleep, we can do almost anything.” – Cobb

10.“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.” – Cobb

The seed that we planted in this man’s mind may change everything.

11.“The seed that we planted in this man’s mind may change everything.” – Cobb

inceptions Quotes by Cobb about life

We all have our limits, Mr. Ariadne. You reach yours when you start making excuses.

1.“We all have our limits, Mr. Ariadne. You reach yours when you start making excuses.”- Cobb

We all make choices in life, Mr. Saito, but in the end our choices make us.

2.“We all make choices in life, Mr. Saito, but in the end our choices make us.”- Cobb

3.”You’re waiting for a train. A train that’ll take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you. But you can’t know for sure. Yet it doesn’t matter.”- Cobb

In my dreams we are together.

4. “In my dreams we are together.” – Cobb

5.“Look at you. You’re just a shade, a shade of my real wife. How could I capture all your beauty, your complexity, your perfection, your imperfection, in a dream? Yes, you’re the best that I can do. But, I’m sorry, you’re just not good enough.” – Cobb

Think about it, how did we get here?

6. “Think about it, how did we get here?” – Cobb

Building a dream from your memory is the easiest way of losing your grasp on what’s real and what is a dream.

7.“Building a dream from your memory is the easiest way of losing your grasp on what’s real and what is a dream.” – Cobb

8.“You create the world of the dream. We bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their subconscious.” – Cobb

When we wound up on the beach of our own subconscious, we lost sight of what was real.

9.“When we wound up on the beach of our own subconscious, we lost sight of what was real.” – Cobb

10. “No idea is simple when you have to plant it in someone else’s mind.” – Cobb

An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.

11.”An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.” – Cobb

12.“She’ll be back. I never seen anyone picked it up that quickly before. Reality is not gonna be enough for her now and when she comes back, when she comes back you gonna have her building mazes.” –Cobb

13.“Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it’s almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed—fully understood—that sticks; right in there somewhere.” – Cobb

14. “She had locked something away, something deep inside her. The truth that she had once known, but… she chose to forget. Limbo became her reality.” – Cobb

Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time.

15. “Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time.” – Cobb

We create our own demons.

16.“We create our own demons.” – Cobb

Best Inception Quotes

1.“Come Back To Reality, Dom.”- Miles

I have to go back. I’m not going anywhere without you.

2.“I have to go back. I’m not going anywhere without you.”- Arthur

The first step to inception is inception itself.

3.“The first step to inception is inception itself.”- Yusuf

4.”If we are gonna perform Inception then we need imagination.”- Eames

You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling

5.“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” – Eames

The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea.

6.“The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea.” – Arthur

7.“That many dreams within dreams is too unstable.” – Yusuf

In the dream state, your conscious defenses are lowered, and it makes your thoughts vulnerable to theft.

8.“In the dream state, your conscious defenses are lowered, and it makes your thoughts vulnerable to theft.” – Arthur

Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times to normal. When you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded: it’s three dreams, that’s ten hours times ten.

9.“Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times to normal. When you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded: it’s three dreams, that’s ten hours times ten.” – Yusuf

10.“Couldn’t somebody have dreamt up a goddamned beach?” – Robert Fischer Jr

11.“Admit it: you don’t believe in one reality anymore.” – Mal

more Inception Quotes

1.“True Inspiration Is Impossible To Fake.”- Inception

2.“That many dreams within dreams is too unstable.”- Inception

3. “Building a dream from your memory is the easiest way of losing your grasp on what’s real and what is a dream.”- Inception

4.“An idea is like a virus.”- Inception

 5.“Who would wanna be stuck in a dream for ten years?” “Depends on the dream.”- Inception

 6.“Do you want to take a leap of faith or become an old man filled with regret waiting to die alone?”- Inception

7.“There’s a point where we just let the music take over everything.”- Inception

8.“Do you know what it is to be a lover? Half of a whole?”- Inception

9.“If you’re going to perform inception, you need imagination.You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject’s mind. Subtle art.”- Inception

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

10.“A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.” – Cobb

My subconscious feels that someone else is creating the world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections converge on you.

11.“My subconscious feels that someone else is creating the world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections converge on you.” – Cobb

I’m the only thing you do believe in anymore.

12. “I’m the only thing you do believe in anymore.”-Mal

13.“I wish. I wish more than anything. But I can’t imagine you with all your complexity, all your perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you. You are just a shade of my real wife. You’re the best I can do, but I’m sorry, you are just not good enough.” –Cobb

Right, but it’s not your idea. The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake.

14.“Right, but it’s not your idea. The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake.” –Arthur

15.“If you can steal an idea, why can’t you plant one there instead?”-Mr. Saito

conclusion

Christopher Nolan is one of the most exciting directors of Hollywood. He always finds a way to come up with something subverting even within the constraints of commercial Hollywood. His storytelling is refreshing and offers a fresh perspective in the over-saturated market of science fiction. Memento, The Prestige, Dark Knight and Inception, and Interstellar all within Nolan’s oeuvre, are worthy of being called classics.