Nirvana Quotes

• When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like Silverchair and bands like that that are super young and sound extremely derivative of bands that were out at that current moment. As they sounded like 'Nirvana in pajamas' as we called them, we sounded like Bon Jovi and Skid Row and Motley Crue, because we were only influenced by what was out at the time because we were so young...

  

  Butch Walker
  • Bands
  • Bon Jovi
  • Motley Crue

• Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Benefit

• 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.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Years
  • Nirvana
  • Nevermind

• Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird. I know when people hear that, it's kind of like finding out that Jimi Hendrix really liked Buddy Hackett, but he interviewed me at a college radio station before they broke and did Bleach. And then, like, about two years later, I was opening for Nirvana at these huge sports arenas.

  

  Bobcat Goldthwait
  • People
  • Weird
  • Finding

• I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Fighting
  • System
  • Raised

• There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wisdom
  • Meditation
  • Nirvana

• There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night

  

  William Henry Irwin
  • Night
  • Nirvana

• I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Drugs
  • Finished
  • Nirvana

• I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Future
  • Painful
  • Closing

• The true meaning of the precepts is that one should refrain not only from drinking alcohol but also from getting drunk on nirvana.

  

  Bassui Tokusho
  • Meaning
  • Nirvana
  • Drining

• The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Album
  • Capable
  • Nirvana

• 'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Nirvana
  • Nevermind

• For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fear
  • Struggle
  • Destruction

• Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Conversation
  • Composition

• Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Suffering

• When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Storm

• One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Respect
  • Realising
  • Nirvana

• I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Experience
  • Wise
  • Attachment

• When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Drummer

• I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Words
  • Nirvana
  • Gate

• If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Peace
  • Nirvana
  • Selflessness

• Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Training

• In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Feeling
  • Consciousness
  • Destruction

• Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Lead
  • Little
  • Nirvana

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