John Lennon

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.

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

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you

It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was ‘all you need is Love.’ This year, it’s ‘all you need is Love and peace, baby.’ Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You’re all geniuses, and you’re all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you’ll get it as soon as you like.

Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.

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.

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

I don’t wanna wake it up, the devil in me.

He’s out his head, I’m out my mind. We got that love, the crazy kind.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

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

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.

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

The love we shared is a paper town on a map we drew ourselves, drunk and fucked and needing to be more than we were.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.

They are different now than they were. My mother never had to say she was a queen to be one. I instinctively knew. So it makes sense now that I am sorely confused by the women who try to convince me with words.

The opposite of love isn’t hate. It isn’t even indifference. It’s fear.