Kurt Cobain Quotes

“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Friends are nothing but a known enemy”
― Kurt Cobain

“The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...”
― Christina Westover, Precipice

“Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.”
― Christina Westover

“No True Talent is fully organic. Yet the superior talented have not only control of study but that extra special, little gift at birth--fueled by passion.A built in, totally spiritual, unexplainable, New Age,fuckin cosmic energy bursting love for passion. And yes,they are an even smaller percent amongst the small percent. And they are special!”
― Kurt Cobain

“He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough.”
― Antony John, Five Flavors of Dumb

“I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

“It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.”
― Christina Westover, Precipice

“I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy...”
― Kurt Cobain

“Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Sometimes, you can't save someone from themselves.”
― Dave Grohl

“I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy...”
― Kurt Cobain

“He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can’t go wrong, because you can’t make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didn’t matter that other people loved him; he simply didn’t love himself enough.”
― Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“Its like what Kathleen said about how in school there was this class that you went to and they were teaching the girls how to prepare themselves for rape and when you looked outside and saw the rapers outside playing football and you said "they are the ones who should be in here being taught not to rape".”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

“Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you.
Maybe even you couldn’t get it all out.
Maybe that’s why you died.
Like you exploded from the inside.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Kurt went from an unknown to icon of a generation. It was like crashing your car and having everyone cheer you on as you crawl out of the wreck.”
― Nicolas Otéro, Who Killed Kurt Cobain?

“Ele tinha o desespero, não a coragem, para ser ele mesmo. Uma vez que você tem isso, você não pode dar errado, porque você não pode cometer nenhum erro quando as pessoas o amam por você ser você mesmo. Mas, para Kurt, não importava que as outras pessoas o amassem; ele simplesmente não se amava o bastante.”
― Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“That night she listened to the Nirvana album again. In Kurt Cobain's voice, Irene heard a perfect and beautiful misery, a voice stretched so thin with loneliness and wanting that it should break. But his voice didn't break, and there was a kind of joy in it too.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I keep returning to the last chorus of All Apologies, where Kurt sang: 'In the sun, I feel as one / All in all is all we are.'

And to these lines from his journals: 'No true talent is fully organic. Yet the obviously superior talented have not only control of study, but that extra special little gift at birth fueled by passion. A built-in, totally spiritual, unexplainable, new age, fucking cosmic, energy-bursting love.”
― Danny Goldberg, Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

“Nirvana's music dragged you across the floor. You felt every crack; every speck of dirt. Their songs helped you locate the places where you ached, and in that awareness of your hurting, you suddenly knew that the bleakness was collective - not merely your own.”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

“I’m not a fan of Kurt’s…I’m no longer writing my thesis on him.”

“Why?”

“He liked guns too much. It didn’t sit right with me as a gun control advocate.”

So, she had become a true conformist, one of the dreaded campus normals!”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“We had given up the dream of Seattle without ever talking about it. Maybe we sensed impending doom, and decided to take control of our failure. Maybe we realized if we made it all the way west, only one of us would survive. Like Kurt and Courtney. Or neither of us would, like Sid and Nancy.”
― Elizabeth Ellen, Elizabeth & Mary & Elle: Three New Fictions

“I loved him.'

'You didn't know him.'

'Of course I knew him. I listened to him sing every single day. The things he sings about, that's him. I know him better than I know you. He understood me.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“You know, Aerosmith will be the thing that kills off your music. Not them directly, mind you. What they represent. Bands are going to sell out. Whatever you think is rebellious now will be used to sell you laxatives in a decade. You'll all get old and conservative. Your Saint Cobain put it well: 'Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I'm bored and old.' It's all about money. You'll get that. You think you are edgy now, but I've seen people like you start to lose their hair and then lose their minds.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“Cobain is not the voice of our generation. He’s the angst. He is our frustration. Our anger.”
― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96

“And the weak crumbs will report to the custodial arts.”
― cobain, pg. 48

“Not a quote. See page 64 (256) to see Kurt's likes and favorite bands”
― COBAIN KURT

“Not a quote. See page 66 (264) to see Kurt's songs.”
― COBAIN KURT

“See page 72 (288) Top 50 bands' albums by NIRVANA <3”
― COBAIN KURT

“Stay GAY all the way and wipe your ass with USA today”
― COBAIN KURT