John Lennon

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.

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let’s stop all the fight.

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 people.

For a long time I wasn’t listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty–it would bring back memories I didn’t want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I’m not alive ’cause I’m not making it. And if it was good, I hated it ’cause I wasn’t doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious ’cause I could’ve done it better…

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.

I’ve had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend’s my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

She doesn’t let me have control anymore. I must’ve crossed a line, I must’ve lost my mind.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

I have you in one world, but I need you in two: the hands and the heart, just one won’t do.

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Spread love everywhere you go let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying a ‘me’.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies. Nor can Spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same Divine Principle; the Root and Record of their Friendship. If Absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent. In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure. This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend.

Give the love that you pray for; someone’s been praying to have it.