40 phrases by John Lennon to remember this beatlemania icon

You can say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope that one day you will join us and the world will be one.

Ignorance is a kind of bliss. If you don’t know, there is no pain.

Imagine that there are no properties, can you do it? Without greed or hunger, a brotherhood of Man. Imagine all the people sharing the whole world.

Life is what happens while you are planning for the future.

If the sky we see above were to fall and roll and the mountains toppled into the sea, I wouldn’t cry. I wouldn’t shed a tear as long as you were by my side.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

We live in a world where we hide to make love! While violence is practiced in broad daylight.

I don’t expect you to understand after you’ve caused so much pain. But you are not to blame, you are just a human, a victim of insanity.

Keep me close to your heart. As far as we are apart, don’t keep us apart. After all, it is written in the stars.

I’m afraid of this business of being normal.

The dream is over, let’s face reality.

They criticized me for singing ‘Power to the People’, saying that no faction can hold power. nonsense. The people are not a faction. People means all people.

Love is real, real is love. Love is feeling, feeling love. To love is to want to be loved.

Don’t expect to see me behind barricades unless they’re flowers.

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing that we can be.

I believe everything Jesus said – love, kindness, charity – but I don’t believe what men say he said.

It is a lack of responsibility to expect someone to do things for us.

Before going to sleep, pray a little every day. Everything is going very well, getting better and better.

Think globally and act locally.

Love is the answer and you know it for sure. Love is a flower, you have to let it bloom.

I know time flies so fast, but when I see her, it’s like we’re falling in love all over again.

I really thought that we would all be saved by love.

Don’t drug yourself for not being able to bear your own pain. I’ve been everywhere and I’ve only found myself.

I love freedom and so I let the things I love free. if they return, it’s because I conquered them. If they don’t come back, it’s because I never owned them.

Either you get tired fighting for peace or you die.

As soon as you are born, they make you feel small, giving you nothing, not even time. Until the pain is so great that you don’t feel anything anymore. A working class hero is something to be.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, there would be peace.

Being honest won’t make you many friends. But it will definitely bring you the right friends.

When I went to school, I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the question, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

I believe that what people call God is something that is in all of us.

Insecurity and frustration lead man to violence and war.

If anyone thinks that peace and love is just a cliche to be left behind in the 1960s, that’s their problem. Peace and love are eternal.

Maybe there is no difference between us and the president of the USA if we are naked.

A dream that you dream alone is just a dream. A dream that you dream together is reality.

I believe that God is like a powerhouse, that He is a supreme power, who is neither good nor bad, neither right nor left, neither white nor black. He just is.

People are always seeing little fragments, but I see the whole, not just in my own life, but the whole universe, the whole game.

What we have to do is keep hope alive. Because without hope we’ll all be shipwrecked.

Behind every great woman there is always a great asshole.

Fulfill your dream, you will have to do it yourself. I can’t wake you up, you’re the one who can wake up.

The more real you can be, the more unreal the world will seem to you.