If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I dote on his very absence.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.