Top 400 John Lennon Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”

— John Lennon

204. “We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.”

— John Lennon

205. “Look, I wasn’t saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said ‘Beatles’ because it’s easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.”

— John Lennon

206. “Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.”

— John Lennon

207. “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.”

— John Lennon

208. “What I’m trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I’m trying to tell them.”

— John Lennon

209. “Everybody’s talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.”

— John Lennon

210. “I can’t remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.”

— John Lennon

211. “It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don’t appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It’s the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison – it’s garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.”

— John Lennon

212. “I really thought that love would save us all.”

— John Lennon

213. “Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.”

— John Lennon

214. “I want it to sound like an orange.”

— John Lennon

215. “Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m.”

— John Lennon

216. “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.”

— John Lennon

217. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.”

— John Lennon

218. “It looks like I’m going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -? so they promise. And I believe it, too.”

— John Lennon

219. “Don’t let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can’t do you know harm to feel your own pain.”

— John Lennon

220. “Imagine all of us living in peace, it’s too beautiful to just be a dream.”

— John Lennon

221. “You can’t give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can’t be with them enough. There’s no such thing.”

— John Lennon

222. “You don’t have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.”

— John Lennon

223. “Strawberry fields forever.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

225. “Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.”

— John Lennon

226. “Your inside is out and your outside is in.”

— John Lennon

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

— John Lennon

228. “Peace and love are eternal.”

— John Lennon

229. “We had one thing in common – we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn’t answer everything and it’s like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.”

— John Lennon

230. “There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything.”

— John Lennon

231. “There’s nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.”

— John Lennon

232. “Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.”

— John Lennon

233. “Leave a space and something will fill it.”

— John Lennon

234. “We’re playing those mind games together, pushing the barriers, planting seeds, playing the mind guerilla.”

— John Lennon

235. “It’s just natural, it’s not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it’s The End of The Earth. It’s only a rock group that split up, it’s nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.”

— John Lennon

236. “Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them.”

— John Lennon

237. “I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn’t go around shouting about it.”

— John Lennon

238. “Happiness is just how you feel when you don’t feel miserable.”

— John Lennon

239. “Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We’re pacifists, but I’m not sure what it means when you’re such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.”

— John Lennon

240. “If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.”

— John Lennon

241. “All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it’s still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.”

— John Lennon

242. “I’ve never really been wanted.”

— John Lennon

243. “So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?”

— John Lennon

244. “Nothing will stop me, and whether I’m here or wherever I may be, I’ll always have the same feelings, I’ll say what I feel.”

— John Lennon

245. “How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.”

— John Lennon

246. “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.”

— John Lennon

247. “The artist’s role isn’t to tell people how to feel, but reflect.”

— John Lennon

248. “I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”

— John Lennon

249. “Love is a promise; love is a souvenir...”

— John Lennon

250. “From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.”

— John Lennon