John Lennon Quotes

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

~ John Lennon

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

~ John Lennon

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

~ John Lennon

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

~ John Lennon

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

~ John Lennon

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

~ John Lennon

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

~ John Lennon

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

~ John Lennon

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

~ John Lennon

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

~ John Lennon

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

~ John Lennon

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

~ John Lennon

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

~ John Lennon

Nothing is real.

~ John Lennon

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

~ John Lennon

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

~ John Lennon

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

~ John Lennon

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

~ John Lennon

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

~ John Lennon

Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will be as one

~ John Lennon

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

~ John Lennon

…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

~ John Lennon

War is over ... If you want it.

~ John Lennon

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

~ John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

~ John Lennon

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

~ John Lennon

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

~ John Lennon

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

~ John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

~ John Lennon

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

~ John Lennon

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

~ John Lennon

I get by with a little help from my friends.

~ John Lennon

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

~ John Lennon

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

~ John Lennon

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

~ John Lennon

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

~ John Lennon

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...

~ John Lennon

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

~ John Lennon

You, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

~ John Lennon

You tell me it's the institution.Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead.But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.Don't you know it's gonna be all right?

~ John Lennon