Top 404 Nirvana Quotes & Sayings

Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.

Effortlessness is a great phenomenon. Once you know it, many millions of things become possible to you. Through effort the market; through effortlessness the God. Through effort you can never reach to nirvana - you can reach lo New Delhi, but not to nirvana.

Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.

Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

Growing older, you respect the whole culture behind Nirvana.

Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.

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.

Shiva Nirvana's dedication and patience are adorable.

I grew up in the '90s, and I loved Nirvana.

I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.

Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.

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

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

I don't listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there's a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric guitars because of the 'Unplugged' album. It's so great.

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

I don't really like Nirvana that much.

People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back.

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.

I didn't hate Nirvana. That was more of a media-constructed this-versus-that thing.

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.

The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

Your mind is nirvana.

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

I am a huge fan of Nirvana and always will be.

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

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

Go directly to Nirvana. Don't pass go - or you'll have kids, you'll grow old together, you'll be born into another realm where you'll forget that there was even nirvana.

Nirvana is my favourite band.

Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

I listen to rap, reggae, Nirvana and Guns N' Roses.

The R.E.M and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. R.E.M and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.

I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.

I'm a huge Nirvana fan.

The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.

One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.

When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did this Nirvana song, very unrehearsed and not important, but then all the websites were like, "They covered Nirvana!" People like covers of famous people.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.

Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.