diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 7276d698..bbe806ac 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -18,11 +18,8 @@ Depends:
     R (>= 3.6.0)
 Imports:
     cli,
-    glue,
-    lifecycle,
     methods,
-    rlang (>= 1.1.0),
-    withr
+    rlang (>= 1.1.0)
 Suggests:
     covr,
     curl,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index ac692aa7..472fe4f4 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -213,7 +213,5 @@ exportClasses(xml_missing)
 exportClasses(xml_node)
 exportClasses(xml_nodeset)
 import(rlang)
-importFrom(glue,glue)
-importFrom(lifecycle,deprecated)
 importFrom(methods,setOldClass)
 useDynLib(xml2, .registration = TRUE)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 653be6c4..e59f61c5 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # xml2 (development version)
 
+* Remove unused dependencies on glue, withr and lifecycle (@mgirlich).
+
 # xml2 1.3.5
 
 * Small speedup for `xml_find_all()` (@mgirlich, #393).
diff --git a/R/xml2-package.R b/R/xml2-package.R
index 97c07e14..d248733b 100644
--- a/R/xml2-package.R
+++ b/R/xml2-package.R
@@ -3,7 +3,5 @@
 
 ## usethis namespace: start
 #' @import rlang
-#' @importFrom glue glue
-#' @importFrom lifecycle deprecated
 ## usethis namespace: end
 NULL