John Lennon Quotes

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers...

You tell me it's the institution.Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead.But if you go ca...

Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine ...

The sun is up, the sky is blueIt's beautiful, and so are you

Nothing is real.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. Wh...

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all ex...

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morni...

When somebody is angry with us we draw a halo around his or her head in our minds. Does the person...

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for ma...

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

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - fo...

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you if you'll just rattle you...

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

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasi...

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

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishme...

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you're so clever and classless and...

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to t...

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

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it t...

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a ...

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...

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

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ...

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, ...

Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, ``W...

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your ...

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

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

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go...

Whatever gets you through the night

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you ...

I believe time wounds all heels.

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

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying,...

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

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasi...

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

War is over ... If you want it.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave i...

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

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

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

I used to think that the world was doing something to me, that the world owed me something. And that...

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

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

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

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to decl...

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

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I ...

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hop...

…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or ...

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only...

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessorie...

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