Bono Quotes

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

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.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

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

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

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

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

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

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.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.