Bono Quotes

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

I was in that room. It might have been a rehearsal room as a new song dropped by, but soon enough it was a walk down a country lane. “Now,” said the doctor, continuing. “Pull out the feeling that makes you feel safest and strongest and describe it for me.” “I’m walking along a river with my best friend,” I said. “And everything is just as it should be. I have confidence in my footsteps; I feel I am learning judgment but not being judged. I can say anything I want. Sometimes there’s a reply; sometimes there’s not. It’s just a conversation between friends.” “And your friend,” inquired the doctor. “Who is it?” I said, “I think it’s Jesus.” I heard the doctor shuffle, nervously, in his seat. Maybe I wasn’t that deep in his hypnosis. And he asked, “Where are you?” I said, “I’m just walking down a country lane by a river. It’s not the Tolka or the Liffey or even the Mississippi. Could it be the Jordan? I’ve always had a thing about the river Jordan.” Emerging from this “deep relaxation,” I could sense that the great physician had not expected me to find Jesus in my bottom drawer. The doctor was polite

The Franciscan friar Richard Rohr put it to me like this: “It’s our strengths rather than our weaknesses that often hold us back.

It takes great faith to have no faith.

Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, "He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute." Well, this is the time for bold measures.

I met this poet named Brendan Kennelly. I have known him for years; he is an unbelievable poet. And he said, “Bono, if you want to get to the place where the writing lives, imagine you’re dead.” There is no ego, there is no vanity, no worrying about who you will offend. That is great advice.

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — - I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

Failure is when you give your enemies the confirmation, they were right all along to have you in their shit list,

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim

We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?

I like my heroes to be alive,” she told me. “I like them to grow old.” I, too, admire my idols more for the lines on their faces, for the bumps and bruises, the cuts and scar tissue.

Well, while I hope God is with those of us who live such comfortable lives, I know God is with the poorest and most vulnerable.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

U2’s music was never really rock ’n’ roll. Under its contemporary skin it’s opera — a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day. A tenor out front who won’t accept he’s a baritone. A small man singing giant songs. Wailing, keening, trying to explain the unexplainable. Trying to release himself and anyone who will listen from the prison of a human experience that cannot explain grief.

Baby's got blue skies up ahead
But in this, I'm a rain-cloud
Ours is a stormy kind of love