Top 400 John Lennon Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.”

— John Lennon

152. “I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!”

— John Lennon

153. “I’ll give you everything I’ve got for a little peace of mind.”

— John Lennon

154. “No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.”

— John Lennon

155. “Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don’t think I’m either.”

— John Lennon

156. “Nothing you can know that isn’t known Nothing you can see that isn’t shown Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be It’s easy.”

— John Lennon

157. “Ringo isn’t the best drummer in the world. He isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles.”

— John Lennon

158. “Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.”

— John Lennon

159. “I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope.”

— John Lennon

160. “I’m cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I’m not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That’s why I really don’t want to be labeled a cynic.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

162. “They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, I told them they didn’t understand life.”

— John Lennon

163. “Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.”

— John Lennon

164. “We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?”

— John Lennon

165. “Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

— John Lennon

166. “There’s room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.”

— John Lennon

167. “You’re born in pain and pain is what we’re in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.”

— John Lennon

168. “Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.”

— John Lennon

169. “When they’ve tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.”

— John Lennon

170. “Instant Karma’s gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head.”

— John Lennon

171. “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

172. “Don’t underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you’re happy, who cares what you do?”

— John Lennon

173. “It’s amazing how low you go to get high.”

— John Lennon

174. “It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.”

— John Lennon

175. “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.”

— John Lennon

176. “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.”

— John Lennon

177. “If there hadn’t been an Elvis, there wouldn’t have been the Beatles.”

— John Lennon

178. “Control yourself. You’ll spurt.”

— John Lennon

179. “They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.”

— John Lennon

180. “I don’t stand back and judge – I do.”

— John Lennon

181. “If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.”

— John Lennon

182. “We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.”

— John Lennon

183. “All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.”

— John Lennon

184. “Always remember this: ‘A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.’”

— John Lennon

185. “I’ll probably be popped off by some loony.”

— John Lennon

186. “Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go.”

— John Lennon

187. “Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.”

— John Lennon

188. “I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

190. “It’s like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.”

— John Lennon

191. “People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there’s no problem, only solutions.”

— John Lennon

192. “I’ll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

194. “I don’t know how much money I’ve got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I’ve lost the bit of paper.”

— John Lennon

195. “We’re mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.”

— John Lennon

196. “Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.”

— John Lennon

197. “We’re all God. I’m not a god or the God, but we’re all God and we’re all potentially divine-and potentially evil.”

— John Lennon

198. “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.”

— John Lennon

199. “Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called ‘Happiness Is a Warm Gun.’ I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon