Quotes from John Lennon

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

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.

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.

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

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.

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.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Life's what happens when you're making other plans.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

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

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

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.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

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