Yoko Ono Quotes

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

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

Make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it

You are water I’m water we’re all water in different containers that’s why it’s so easy to meet someday we’ll evaporate together.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody. a) for three days b) for forty-five days c) for three months See what happens to your life.

We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

I feel sad that he’s just a voice now.

Art is a way of survival.

Art is my life and my life is art.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

Life with another person is always difficult.

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It’s the male chauvinistic society that we’re living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I’m just bringing that out. Don’t be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.

You change the world by being yourself.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Write down everything you fear in life. Burn it. Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.