Bono Quotes

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

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

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

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

"The ones whose light will remain with me long after they have burnt out are the ones that had grace. Because it's rare that the gift comes with grace. Some of the biggest arseholes I've ever met are the most gifted. Because it's "pretty girl" syndrome. Being gifted is like being born beautiful. You don't have to work a day in a year in your life for it. You were born with it. In one sense, it's like blue blood, money, gift, or beauty. They are the things that should make you the most humble, because they are not the things you have earned. They are the things you were given. Yet, it is my experience that they male people the most spoiled. And the people who work the hardest, and who have overcome the most obstacles on their life, who have reason to beat their breasts are the most humble, sometimes. I can't get over that. it's bewildering to me. To make it through success and still have manners, to still have curiosity, intellectual curiosity, to still have some grace, to keep your dignity, that is really... rare."

The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog.
It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

"For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

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.