Top 400 John Lennon Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.”

— John Lennon

152. “The magic of the music seems to light the way.”

— John Lennon

153. “The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people. It controls them.”

— John Lennon

154. “You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

157. “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

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

160. “Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

162. “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

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

— John Lennon

164. “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

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

— John Lennon

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

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

172. “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

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

— John Lennon

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

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

— John Lennon

177. “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

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

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

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

186. “I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

189. “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

190. “If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn’t wasted time.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

192. “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

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

— John Lennon

194. “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

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

197. “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

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

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

200. “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