100 Powerful Quotes By John Lennon To Feed Your Soul

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 live as one.

  

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

Life

  

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?

  

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

  

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

  

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

Together

  

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

  

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

  

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

Peace

  

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

  

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

  

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.

Peace

  

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.

Me , Think

  

It's weird not to be weird.

  

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.

Life

  

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.

Me , Music

  

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

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War is over ... If you want it.

  

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

Like , Me

  

Nothing is real.

  

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

  

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Never

  

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

  

I get by with a little help from my friends.

  

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...

  

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

  

Love is a flower you got to let it grow.

  

Whatever gets you through the night

  

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.

  

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

  

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

Me

  

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

Music , Think

  

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

  

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

  

Remember to let her into your heart.

  

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

  

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.

  

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

  

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 am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

Me , Together

  

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

  

Time wounds all heels.

Time

  

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

  

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

  

Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.

  

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

Me

  

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

Life , Time

  

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

Think

  

There are no problems, only solutions.

  

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

  

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

  

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Life

  

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

  

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

Me

  

All you need is love.

  

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

Think

  

Paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

  

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

  

Before Elvis there was nothing.

  

When you cross the street, take my hand

  

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

  

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping...

Me

  

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere-come and get your share.

  

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.

  

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

  

I've never really been wanted.

Never

  

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

  

Make love, not war.

  

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

  

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do , Something you are, And something you give away

Peace

  

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

  

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

Peace

  

It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.

  

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Think , Trying

  

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

Me

  

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

  

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

  

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

  

Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

  

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

  

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

Never

  

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

Me

  

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

  

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

  

Give us a kiss

  

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

  

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

  

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.

Me

  

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

  

Rain, I don't mind

  

I still believe that all you need is love.

  

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

  

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

Me , Together

  

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

  

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

  

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?

Like , Think

  

The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you

  

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

  

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

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