Quotes By Author: John Lennon

“…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don’t know what will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. We’re more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”

“I wasn’t saying whatever they’re saying I was saying. I’m sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don’t know quite what I’ve done. I’ve tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I’m sorry.”

“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it.It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”

“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”

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

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives”

“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?”

“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”

“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.”

“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

“Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends”

“I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore”

“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.”

“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love”

“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.”