Quotes By John Lennon

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

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?

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

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

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

All you need is love.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

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

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

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.

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.

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

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

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