John Lennon Quotes

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

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.

War is over ... If you want it.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

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.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones

Whatever gets you through the night

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

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

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

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

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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.

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

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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.

All you need is love.

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

Before Elvis there was nothing.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

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

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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?

You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

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

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

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

I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

Imagine all the people living life in peace...

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace...

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.