Quotes By John Lennon

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

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

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

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.

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?

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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

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

The more I see the less I know for sure.

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

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

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 either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

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

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

All you need is love.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 we are saying is give peace a chance.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!