John Lennon

We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don’t know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Christianity will go. 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.

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…

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

And now my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around it. Already choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

I have never had trouble to love others, but loving myself was difficult. For years I didn’t like myself, so how could I love myself. It has taken time, and still there is a way to go, but I can say, not only do I like myself, but also care about myself enough to start loving myself too.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Love is what we’re born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache!

You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

I’m fine with the ups and downs in our story as long as the theme is love.

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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