Quotes from John Lennon

Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

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.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

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.

Whatever gets you through the night is all right.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

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

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

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.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.

It's weird not to be weird.