Yoko Ono

Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.
– Yoko Ono

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
– Yoko Ono

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We
have to give them respect.
– Yoko Ono

The sixties were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
– Yoko Ono

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
– Yoko Ono

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
– Yoko Ono

I think one of the reasons that I’m surviving is the incredible negative power that was trying
to erase me. It was not the truth that I broke up the Beatles.
– Yoko Ono

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of
him.
– Yoko Ono

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

Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are
always beating in unison.
– Yoko Ono

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it’s all right. We’re
scared that if the truth comes out that it’s not all right. It’s the other way around.
– Yoko Ono

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
– Yoko Ono

Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.
– Yoko Ono

In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes,
I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further. I think that’s what happened to us gods
and goddesses. Like the dinosaurs, we realized that it’s too dangerous to be so large. So we
kept shrinking ourselves to what we are now. We might get even smaller. I see the sign in the
engineers making smaller gadgets, smaller and smaller. Pretty soon, our fingers will be too large to operate them. So what are we doing? I trust in the human wisdom. We are incredibly
intelligent beings. So we might know something without thinking that we know… Well, even my
best friend didn’t know until now that I was thinking of crazy things like this.
– Yoko Ono

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world.
– Yoko Ono

I have a big job in addition to music: to keep his voice going.
– Yoko Ono

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.
– Yoko Ono

Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.
– Yoko Ono

True artists are prophets. I don’t want to be that prophetic in that sense because it’s so
lonely.
– Yoko Ono

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

I don’t know if I’ve learned so much from people as from events. Events are the best teacher
for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
– Yoko Ono

It’s better to dance than to march through life.
– Yoko Ono

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
– Yoko Ono

At least I had that, one guy understood me.
– Yoko Ono

I didn’t think I would be a widow. Nobody thinks they are going to be a widow. And the
minute I was a widow, I started to see what a test it is to be a widow in this society.
– Yoko Ono

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.
– Yoko Ono

John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking
so fast that nobody else can see them.
– Yoko Ono

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

Never say goodbye,
You say tomorrow’s another day,
All I know is we’re here today.
I’ve got nightmares I could never share with you,
The kind that keeps me up all night.
So hold me tight till the room is light,
And tell me that it’s all right.
– Yoko Ono

Don’t ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you’ve spent a lot of time
with it.
– Yoko Ono

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
– Yoko Ono