Bono Quotes

I’m also deeply conscious that I can’t live up to the badge I’ve pinned to my lapel. I’m a follower of Christ who can’t keep up.

Our work is borders, crossing them. Borders are a big attraction for me, leaving one country on the way to another, leaving one thought on the way to another, leaving our teens for our twenties, leaving East for West Germany. The liminal is the place to be. The bleeding edge. The demilitarized zones of the psyche, the gray ones of the heart. No-man’s-land is yes-man’s-land.

Just being yourself, being who you are and what you are is successful rebellion.

What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living — that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.

On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open

I like my heroes to be alive,” she told me. “I like them to grow old.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Let me tell you something. I've had enough of Irish Americans who haven't been back to their country in twenty or thirty years come up to me and talk about the resistance, the revolution back home; and the glory of the revolution, and the glory of dying for the revolution. Fuck the revolution! They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What's the glory of taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory of bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old-age-pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day? Where's the glory in that? To leave them dying, or crippled for life, or dead, under the rubble of the revolution that the majority of the people in my country don't want. No more! Sing No more!

Human beings are not just what they do, but who they are. A lot of my life is about what I'm doing.

And I can tell you the division of our small island was much more to do with keeping Harland & Wolff in the union than to protect the Protestants.

There are times when I will introduce him to worlds he might not have entered and times when he will protect me from worlds I should never enter.

It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it’s business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.

If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex. Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation.

I don't believe the devil, I don't believe his book, but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up

Great friendships explain why we hold on to this life so tightly because it disappears so quickly.