John Lennon on life and death

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first⁠—rock’n’roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

James Dean1931–1955

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948

• Education

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost1874–1963Attributed in Ray Josephs, “Robert Frost’s Secret”, in William Nichols (ed.) Words to Live By (Simon and Schuster, 1959), pp. 172–73