John Lennon Quotes

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

Life, Busy, Making

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.
John Lennon

Peace, Life, Hope

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.
John Lennon

God, Jesus, Old

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.
John Lennon

Change, Life, Live

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.
John Lennon

Society, Put, Away

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon

Time, Enjoy, Wasted

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?
John Lennon

Dreams, Mind, Real

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

Women, Great, Woman

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.
John Lennon

Love, After, Keep

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.
John Lennon

Love, Peace, Someone

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

Peace, Another, Everyone

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

Love, Flower, Grow

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

Music, Everybody, Possession

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

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

Everybody, Ground, Six

Everything is clearer when you're in love.
John Lennon

Love, Everything, Clearer

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.
John Lennon

Help, Someone, Notice

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.
John Lennon

Rock, Jesus, Popular

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.
John Lennon

Life, Love, Peace

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

Sun, Stars, Moon

All you need is love.
John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon

Peace, Saying, Give

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

Love, Flower, Sure

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

Society, Try, Leader

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
John Lennon

Time, God, Yourself

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Nationality: English

Born: October 9, 1940

Died: December 8, 1980

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