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“I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.”

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John Lennon

John Lennon, born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, and died on December 8, 1980. He was a founding member of the iconic rock band The Beatles, known for his unique musical talent and his advocacy for peace and anti-war ideas. more

“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.”

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Author:John Lennon

“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.”

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“When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.”

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Author:John Lennon

“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.”

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“My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.”

Mother Father Saws Splits

Author:John Lennon

“Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.”

People Beautiful Mother Wish Died

Author:Yoko Ono

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