John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky, imagine all the people living for today...

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.

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

All you need is love.

Give peace a chance.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

When you do something 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.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

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.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car and into another.

We've got to face it, we're living in a throw-away society.

As I always say, 'I'm a working-class hero.'

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

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.

I don't believe in yesterday, I believe in today.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest.