He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself.....

“ He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can’t go wrong, because you can’t make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didn’t matter that other people loved him; he simply didn’t love himself enough. ”

Charles R. Cross

From : Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain