Quotes from Yoko Ono

I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.

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.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.

Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.

We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.

Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.

What is beauty? It's what you love.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.