The best Quotes by John Lennon

The best Quotes by John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.
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Everybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism

All we are saying is give peace a chance
Give Peace a Chance, Album: Shaved Fish
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You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
Imagine
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
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Everything is clearer when you're in love.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
I might have been born in Liverpool - but I grew up in Hamburg.
Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted.
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The more I see, the less I know for sure.
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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.
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Count your age by friends, not years.
Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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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?
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I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can ... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
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I really thought that love would save us all.
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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), Album: Double Fantasy
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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.
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You my say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope some day you'll join us,
and the world will live as one.
Imagine
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Quotes about John Lennon

All you need is love. John Lennon. Smart man. Shot in the back. Very sad!
Julius Levinson in Independence Day
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
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I know it's true
It's all because of you
And if you go away
I know you could never stay
The Beatles - Now and Then
I know it's true
It's all because of you
And if I make it through
It's all because of you

And now and then
If we must start again
Well, we will know for sure
That I love you
The Beatles - Now and Then
Little darling
It's been a long, cold, lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And I say, "It's alright"
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun, Album: Abbey Road
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday

Suddenly
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly

Why she had to go
I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday
The Beatles - Yesterday, Album: Help!
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, 'let it be'
And in my hour of darkness, she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, 'let it be'
The Beatles - Let It Be, Album: Let It Be
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Every drop in the ocean counts.
God bless Queen Elizabeth II.
May she rest in peace.
Long live The King.
Paul McCartney - September 2022
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney - about The Beatles
Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.
Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5
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Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
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Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist.
President Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day
The Beatles will exist without us.
If you have no reason to stay, that is exactly the best to go.
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Aquarius won't chase after anyone. If you wanna walk out of their life they'll hold the door open.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
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Are you telling me that you stop believing in the moon when the sun comes up?
Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians
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Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
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You know why there's stars in the sky, Liv? So we can always find our way home.
Keep Breathing - Season 1
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I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts. Their reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?
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You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.
Bree Van De Kamp in Desperate Housewives - Season 1 Episode 12
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People in Liverpool are very welcoming.
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.
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