Kurt Cobain Quotes

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I hate myself, and I want to die

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

The worst crime is faking it.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Rather be dead than cool.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

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

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

She eyes me like a pisces.

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

Zits are beauty marks.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

The world sucks, people are not true

I will get stoned and worship Satan.