"I'd rather be hated for who I..." - Quote by Kurt Cobain
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
More by Kurt Cobain
More on Authenticity
“Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.”
“I have felt independent of the opinions of others in terms of whether or not I should or shouldn't be doing that. There's something that I allow to consult myself within myself rather than looking outside to see if this is right or not.”
“Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.”
More on Self
“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.”
“Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.”