Quotes from John Lennon

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Love is real, real is love.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

I really thought that love would save us all.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Love is needing to be loved.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

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

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.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

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.

Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow.

Everything is as important as everything else.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.

Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?