John Lennon Quotes About Life

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Life is short, and there’s so much freaking beauty out there!

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

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So, I believe in fairies, myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind.

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

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal means. If anybody can put on paper what our government and the American government and the Russian… Chinese… what they are actually trying to do, and what they think they’re doing. I’d be very pleased to know what they think they’re doing. I think they’re all insane. But, I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

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

John Lennon Quotes About Life part 2

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.

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

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

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

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

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

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

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what color my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

There are no problems, only solutions.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

We’re more popular than Jesus now.

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

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.

It’s fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it’s unknown and it’s plain sailing.

My role in society, or any artist 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.

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

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.