John Lennon Quotes

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

If you ever feel so sad, and the whole world is driving you mad, Remember, remember today.

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.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted

In the middle of a cloud I call your name.

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.

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?

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.

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

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

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.

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.

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

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry

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

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.