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?

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

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

Nothing is real.

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.

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

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Need a whole new syntax for fatigue on days like this.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Yes. I am mentally ill. I’m not embarrassed about it. And I have written my best work not when flirting with the brink, but when treating my chronic health problem with consistency and care.

There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight everyday.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think. That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.

You may feel depressed, but it can’t be so depressing that you can’t move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

I feel like there’s this glamour… where the woman who has a psychological illness is in fur, laid out on a chaise. Whereas in reality, a woman with mental illness or… is struggling with her psychological wellbeing is often in sweats and in a T-shirt that used to belong to her dad and is covered in food bits.