John Lennon Quotes

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

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

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.

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

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

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

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.

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.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

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?

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

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

Love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

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

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

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.

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.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

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

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.

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.

I’m not claiming divinity, I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.

It’s time you learned what it means to be alive. It means to be left alone and not to be followed. It means that people aren’t going to dump their shit on you because they’ve decided you’re their friend.

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

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.

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.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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.

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

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Time wounds all heels.