On the 5th of April, 1994, Kurt Cobain left this planet but left behind him many lessons and inspiration for the next generation. He lived in a time when mental health wasn’t widely discussed, nor accepted by society, as it is today.
If you need help today, please consult professional services in your local country. Meanwhile, here are 56 deep quotes by Kurt Cobain to inspire us to think differently:
1. I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
2. They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.
3. 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.
4. The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
5. Practice makes perfect, but nobody’s perfect
6. If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
7. We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
8. I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.
9. I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
10. I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
11. If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.
12. I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.
13. My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
14. The sun is gone, but I have a light.
15. I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
16. I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.
17. 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.
18. Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.
19. Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.
20. 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.
21. I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.
22. If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.
23. You can’t buy happiness.
24. Friends are nothing but a known enemy.
25. I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.
26. I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
27. I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.
28. Go to the source and start there.
29. I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.
30. It’s better to burn out than fade away.
31. To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditably.
32. Come as you are. As you were. As I want you to be.
33. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
34. I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
35. No one is afraid of heights, they’re afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they’re afraid of the answer.
36. Because there is nothing in the world I like more than pure underground music.
37. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.
38. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.
39. I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
40. Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you’ll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.
41. I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.
42. Life isn’t nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.
43. Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
44. Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.
45. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.
46. There’s good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much.
47. I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
48. I’m disgusted with my own apathy, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those others isms.
49. I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.
50. Just because it’s all you want, doesn’t mean it’s all you need.
51. Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.
52. Words suck. I mean, everything has been said. Words aren’t as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.
53. No matter what you do or say, there’s nothing that you can do to make people understand you.
54. We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.
55. Before I die many will die with me and they’ll deserve it. See you in Hell.
56. If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.