Top 100 Bono Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Music can change the world because it can change people.”

— Bono

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2. “Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.”

— Bono

3. “My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.”

— Bono

4. “Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.”

— Bono

5. “To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”

— Bono

6. “When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.”

— Bono

7. “Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world...”

— Bono

8. “Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later”

— Bono

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9. “We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.”

— Bono

10. “U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.”

— Bono

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11. “We can’t fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can.”

— Bono

12. “Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it.”

— Bono

13. “In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim.”

— Bono

14. “I can’t change the world but I can change the world in me.”

— Bono

15. “Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”

— Bono

16. “Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.”

— Bono

17. “Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.”

— Bono

18. “The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.”

— Bono

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19. “Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.”

— Bono

20. “Laughter is eternity if joy is real.”

— Bono

21. “There’s a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you’re in the wrong place.”

— Bono

22. “Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.”

— Bono

23. “In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.”

— Bono

24. “Perspective is the cure for depression.”

— Bono

25. “I love America and I hate it. I’m torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.”

— Bono

26. “Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.”

— Bono

27. “It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.”

— Bono

28. “At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.”

— Bono

29. “Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.”

— Bono

30. “The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That’s never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It’s very odd, ’cause I don’t have a dog.”

— Bono

31. “To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel – on your knees boy!”

— Bono

32. “I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I’m deadly serious about that.”

— Bono

33. “Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.”

— Bono

34. “The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.”

— Bono

35. “The right to be ridiculous is something I hold dear.”

— Bono

36. “Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”

— Bono

37. “It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”

— Bono

38. “If you’re not at the table you’re on the menu?”

— Bono

39. “Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.”

— Bono

40. “The God I believe in isn’t short on cash, mister.”

— Bono

41. “The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.”

— Bono

42. “If I don’t understand it, it must be art.”

— Bono

43. “I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.”

— Bono

44. “Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.”

— Bono

45. “When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !””

— Bono

46. “Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.”

— Bono

47. “God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.”

— Bono

48. “Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.”

— Bono

49. “It’s not only joy as an act of defiance; it’s business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.”

— Bono

50. “But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.”

— Bono