John Lennon Quotes about Pain

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

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

John Lennon

Inspirational, Pain, Emotional

Song: Crippled Inside, Album: Imagine

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

John Lennon

Pain, Concepts

"God" (song) (1970)

All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.

John Lennon

Growing Up, Pain, Parent

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When you wake up and your heart is going like the clappers or your back feels strained, or you develop some other hang-up, you should let your mind go to the pain and the pain itself will regurgitate the memory which originally caused you to suppress it in your body. In this way the pain goes to the right channel instead of being repressed again, as it is if you take a pill or a bath, saying 'Well, I'll get over it'. Most people channel their pain into God or masturbation or some dream of making it.

John Lennon

Dream, Pain, Memories

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Pain

"Song: 'Instant Karma!'". 1970.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

John Lennon

Hurt, Pain, Thinking

Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.7, Verso

I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

John Lennon

Religious, Pain, Heart

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I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

John Lennon

Pain, Insane, Blame

Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.

John Lennon

Sex, Pain, Black

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