77 Nirvana Quotes
Following is our list of nirvana quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about iconic nirvana.
Famous Nirvana Quotes
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. — Jack Kerouac
Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace. — Yayoi Kusama
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss. — Gregory of Nyssa
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace. — Lao Tzu
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. — Buddha
Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive. — David Wolfe
The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness. — Osho
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. — Lester Levenson
To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use these two wings to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. — Buddha
Free from desire, you realize the mystery. — Lao Tzu
Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. — Osho
When there is no desire, all things are at peace — Lao Tzu
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in. — Osho
Short Nirvana Quotes
- When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story. — Gary Cherone
- Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice. — Swami Vivekananda
- Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana. — Buddha
- Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts. — Nhat Hanh
- In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation. — Frederick Lenz
- Your mind is nirvana. — Bodhidharma
- There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night — William Henry Irwin
- Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana. — Amit Ray
- To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana. — Shunryu Suzuki
- I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started. — Dave Grohl
Good Nirvana Quotes
I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends. — Audrina Patridge
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. — Dalai Lama
Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any responsibilities. The boomers think that they're 16. Marketers try to keep the charade going. Retirement will look so good, others are going to be jealous. — Jerry Della Femina
With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc...and that really sucks. — John Gallagher, Jr.
I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods. — Nikki Sixx
There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas. — Frederick Lenz
I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat. — Glenn Hughes
People Writing About Nirvana
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 Lao Tzu |
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 Buddha |
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 Osho |
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 Jack Kerouac |
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 Yayoi Kusama |
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 Gregory of Nyssa |
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More Nirvana Quotes
You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you. — Nhat Hanh
Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra. — Dalai Lama
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. — Kurt Cobain
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff. — Kobe Bryant
Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment. — Buddha
I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day. — Dave Grohl
Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam. — Joey Ramone
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. — Buddha
Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay. — Avril Lavigne
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M Scott Peck
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience. — Frederick Lenz
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana. — Phil Donahue
If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents. — Frances Bean Cobain
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M. Scott Peck
If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you. — Buddha
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
Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition. — Tallulah Bankhead
If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection. — Frederick Lenz
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. — Adyashanti
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? — Buddha
When we came out, the kind of music that was popular was Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, all that stuff. That was when we released our second album, 'Images And Words', and it was something people werent used to hearing maybe, and it sort of rose above all that somehow, being progressive, or whatever. — John Petrucci
The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion. — Ken Wilber
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. — Krist Novoselic
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. — Eddie Vedder
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
Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. — Dave Grohl
Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth. — Bodhidharma
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. — Kim Thayil
The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached. — Shunryu Suzuki
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. — Jon Stewart
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. — Rabindranath Tagore
You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does. — Frederick Lenz
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. — Kristin Hersh
I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still. — Krist Novoselic
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 — Jack Kornfield
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