John Lennon Life Quotations

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?

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

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

We've got this gift of love, but 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.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

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.

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.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

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

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

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

The more I see the less I know for sure.

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

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.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

The Legendary Life of a Rock Star Drummer

There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all

Everything is as important as everything else.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game It's easy. All you need is love.

We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic - the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you got to let it - you got to let it grow.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.....

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

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 declare it.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

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

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

Love is real, real is love.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

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

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.

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.