Life's Pleasures Quote by Kurt Cobain

A throwaway line that lands like a dare: if you can convince yourself a creature has no feelings, you can make anything palatable. Cobain frames it as permission, not belief. The point isn’t that fish are numb; it’s that we’re talented at building little moral loopholes so we don’t have to change our appetites. The logic is intentionally flimsy, almost childish, and that’s the bite: it mirrors the way cultural justifications for harm often sound when you strip away the packaging.

In context, the line sits inside “Something in the Way,” a song steeped in deprivation, self-mythology, and the numb routines of survival. The mood is underwater, dissociated, quietly desperate. “It’s okay” reads less like a public argument about animal consciousness and more like self-talk from someone trying to normalize a compromised life: you do what you can, you tell yourself what you need to hear, you keep moving.

Cobain also knew how to weaponize plain language. Grunge’s power was its refusal of polish; it made discomfort feel domestic. By choosing fish, he picks an object Americans already treat as ethically “lighter” than meat, then exposes the convenient story underneath. The subtext is broader than diet: if feelings are the threshold for care, we’ll keep redrawing the map until it excuses us. The line doesn’t absolve anyone. It shows how absolution gets manufactured.