Top 100 John Lennon Quotes About Life and Happiness

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Updated: June 10th, 2022

Top 100 John Lennon Quotes About Life and Happiness

John Lennon was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded The Beatles. As the frontman and primary songwriter of the band, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important popular musicians in history.

John Lennon is perhaps the most famous of the Beatles and one of the most influential rock musicians of all time. He penned some of the band's biggest hits, like "Love Me Do" and "A Hard Day's Night".

We've put together an incredible collection of the best John Lennon quotes to read.

Here they are:

Inspiring John Lennon Quotes On Life

Life is something that happens while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon

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. - John Lennon

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. - John Lennon

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. - John Lennon

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what color my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man. - John Lennon

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care. - John Lennon

I am he as you are me and we are all together. - John Lennon

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. - John Lennon

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. - John Lennon

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. - John Lennon

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside. - John Lennon

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. - John Lennon

imagine a world without people. - John Lennon

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home. - John Lennon

George himself is no mystery, but the mystery of George is immense. It's watching him uncover it all that's so damn interesting. - John Lennon

Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me. - John Lennon

A working-class hero is something to be. - John Lennon

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. - John Lennon

My life has been guided by an unseen piano player, who is actually typing this now. - John Lennon

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends. - John Lennon

Powerful John Lennon Quotes On Happiness

Let It Be. - John Lennon

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable. - John Lennon

I still believe that all you need is love. - John Lennon

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me. - John Lennon

People think you want them to do something or say something special you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself. - John Lennon

Before Elvis there was nothing. - John Lennon

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. - John Lennon

I’ve never really been wanted. - John Lennon

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. - John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. - John Lennon

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me. - John Lennon

Nobody loves you when you're down and out. - John Lennon

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere-come and get your share. - John Lennon

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. - John Lennon

In the end everything will be ok if it's not okay it's not the end. - John Lennon

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. - John Lennon

Everybody loves you when you're six feet in the ground. - John Lennon

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think Wow how did I get here? - John Lennon

Nothing is real. - John Lennon

She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand Like a lizard on the window-pane. - John Lennon

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness. - John Lennon

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

How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing? - John Lennon

Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real. - John Lennon

Men hide to make love but practice violence in daylight. - John Lennon

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it. - John Lennon

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence. - John Lennon

I don’t believe in yesterday, by the way. - John Lennon

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe. - John Lennon

Favorite John Lennon Quotes On Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. - John Lennon

I've never really been wanted. - John Lennon

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty. - John Lennon

Love is the Answer. What was the Question? - John Lennon

Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need. - John Lennon

Everything is clearer when you're in love. - John Lennon

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

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once? - John Lennon

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream. - John Lennon

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. - John Lennon

Everything is as important as everything else. - John Lennon

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. - John Lennon

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. - John Lennon

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be. - John Lennon

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. - John Lennon

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. - John Lennon

It doesn't matter who you love, where you live, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love! - John Lennon

There’s an alternative to violence. It’s to stay in bed and grow your hair. - John Lennon

One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside. - John Lennon

If you wanna be a hero, well Just Follow ME. - John Lennon

Time wounds all heels. - John Lennon

It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. - John Lennon

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason! - John Lennon

You can't keep quiet about anything that's going on in the world unless you're a monk. Sorry, monks! I didn't mean it! - John Lennon

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. - John Lennon

Famous John Lennon Quotes On Peace

Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one. - John Lennon

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. - John Lennon

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. - John Lennon

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are. - John Lennon

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. - John Lennon

When you cross the street, take my hand. - John Lennon

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. - John Lennon

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. - John Lennon

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

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come. - John Lennon

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. - John Lennon

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that'll be the time to worry. Not before. - John Lennon

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. - John Lennon

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. - John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance. - John Lennon

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned. - John Lennon

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted. - John Lennon

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. - John Lennon

I don’t know which will go first- rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. - John Lennon

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. - John Lennon

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind. - John Lennon

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. - John Lennon

I was the walrus, but now I am John and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over. - John Lennon

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream? - John Lennon

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition. - John Lennon

Only by trying on other people’s clothes do we find what size we are. - John Lennon

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping. - John Lennon

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