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“There’s a comfort in being sad. But I am ready to give it up.”
― Jenny Manzer, Save Me, Kurt Cobain

“¿Quién soy yo para buscarte
así, Cobain, incluso si la cartomancia seguramente sea placebo? ¿Quién soy yo para darte ese lugar de padre y de guía
y de rey sucio al que obedeceré siempre con la parte más
triste de mí? No soy nadie y, sin embargo, lo lloro y le escribo, finalmente, esta declaración desorbitada, de fuego fatuo,
instigando más vergüenza porque la realidad es que quisiera
parar, pero solo sé escribir.”
― Lourdes López Suyai, El día que quise hablar con Kurt Cobain

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

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

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

“And why’s Janis Joplin’s life read as a downward spiral into self-destruction? Everything she did is filtered through her death. Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, River Phoenix all suicided too but we see their deaths as aftermaths of lives that went too far. But let a girl choose death—Janis Joplin, Simone Weil—and death becomes her definition, the outcome of her “problems.” To be female still means being trapped within the purely psychological. No matter how dispassionate or large a vision of the world a woman formulates, whenever it includes her own experience and emotion, the telescope’s turned back on her. Because emotion’s just so terrifying the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as discipline, as form. Dear Dick, I want to make the world more interesting than my problems. Therefore, I have to make my problems social.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

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

“Kurt’s was a life that I find compelling, considering what he rose above and what he did with that circumstance. He used his pain to create art in the form of music, and that was surely admirable, whether you loved his music or not.”
― Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“Kurt Cobain is my god. He is the most beautiful man that ever lived.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel

“Today is my birthday. I have existed for twenty-eight years. That is 336 months, or 10,220 days. That is one year longer than Kurt Cobain and Janis Joplin lived, and five years older than my mom was when she had me. If I lived on Mercury, I’d be 116. I’d have orbited the sun that many times. On Venus, I’d be forty-five. I’d be fourteen on Mars. On Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, I wouldn’t even be one yet.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“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

“Prefiero que la gente me odie por ser quien soy a que me ame por lo que no soy. KURT COBAIN”
― Andrea Longarela, Te espero en el fin del mundo (Ficción)

“In the post-Nevermind universe, everything had to be filtered through the notion that this specific representation of modernity was the template for what everyone now wanted from everything, and that any attempt to understand young people had to begin with an understanding of why Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain looked and acted the way that he did.”
― Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties: A Book

“Kurt Cobain said that.”
― Rian Hughes, XX

“Suena Nirvana, About a girl, y me asalta una frase mítica de Kurt Cobain; el hombre se enamora de la mujer a la cual desea, la mujer desea al hombre del que se enamora.”
― Javier Jorge, La última raya

“I like to calmly and rationally discuss my views in a conformist manner, even though I consider myself to the extreme Left.

I like to infiltrate the mechanics of a system by posing as one of them, then slowly start the rot from the inside of the empire.”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

“We should have a handout at the door to speed things along, a brief summary of Dad’s illness and all that transpired in the final days, maybe even a photocopy of his charts and a four-color printout of his last CAT scan, because that seems to be what all of his and Mom’s peers want to talk about. And at the bottom of the handout a simple asterisked declaration would state that it’s of absolutely no interest to us where you were when you found out our father/husband had died, like he was John F. Kennedy or Kurt Cobain.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

“Het westerse consumentisme dreigt bij menigeen uit te lopen op een belevingssolipsisme waarin iedereen alles en dus ook elkaar en zichzelf gebruikt en misbruikt naar zijn 'eigen zin' en niemand nog wezenlijk op de ander betrokken is. De cynische walging over deze levensstijl wordt in de literatuur bijvoorbeeld beschreven door de populaire Franse schrijver Michel Houellebecq en was in de popcultuur al eerder uitgeschreeuwd, zij het minder bewust, door iemand als Kurt Cobain van de grungeband Nirvana, die onder de jeugd een grote populariteit genoot. Onder de kunstenaars vallen nog veel andere namen te noemen, die een verscheurd of cynisch levensgevoel tot uitdrukking brengen dat bij menigeen weerklank vindt. In de filosofie was het ruim een eeuw geleden Nietzsche die eenzaam de pijn heeft gevoeld na 'de dood van God'.”
― Ad Verbrugge, Tijd van onbehagen: filosofische essays over een cultuur op drift

“In his study of suicide notes titled…Or Not To Be, Marc Etkind contrasts the self-victimizing thinking of the late Kurt Cobain with the ownership spirit of his wife, Courtney Love. Cobain was the lead singer of the grunge rock group Nirvana. His addiction to heroin was a major factor in the death he chose—a shotgun blast to the head that was so powerful, police had to use fingerprints to identify the body. He had written a long, poetically self-pitying suicide note to his family and fans that his wife, performer Courtney Love, used to read at her own concerts. While publicly reading Cobain’s suicide note, Courtney Love interspersed his words with her own. She became strong as she read the note, refusing to be the second victim of the tragedy. She showed her anger and her spirit when she asked why he didn’t simply quit music if he was so tired of it? She referred to his letter mockingly as a “letter to the editor,” and ended the reading by yelling out to the crowd, “Just tell him he’s a [jerk], okay?…and that you love him.” Kurt had contracted down into that smallest known, and most painful element in the universe: “Me.”
― Steve Chandler, The Ultimate Key Steps to Self-Discipline