John Lennon Quotes

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unk...

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

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

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those peo...

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.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

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

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

Whatever gets you through the night

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

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

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

I believe time wounds all heels.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!