Yoko Ono Quotes

I spent much of my life hiding.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

Sometimes I want to bury myself in bed, and I don't want anyone to know anything about me, and I don't want anyone to judge me.

I was successfully hiding from the world on Broadway for about 25 years.

I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

I want to be invisible.

I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

There will be roughly 80 million people with a grievance who will be looking for me. I do not want them to find me.

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

My day is spent hiding from people.

I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.

I used to always hide my hand, I still do. I don't really like talking about it. Sometimes I still hide it and not even realize that I'm doing it.

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide.

Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.