33 Tupac Quotes About Sadness
It is impossible to immerse yourself in the music of Tupac and not be touched by the overall feeling of sadness that is evident in his lyrics. As a key element of the late rapper’s overall emotional complexity, sadness is the guiding feeling in many of his songs. In this article, we will show you some of the most memorable Tupac quotes about sadness.
Years later, we can already say that fame and money were never enough to bring peace to the tormented and rebellious soul of Tupac. The rapper had a complex and emotion-filled inner world and even material gains and the love of thousands was not enough to comfort it. Until his last hour, 2Pac lived a fast-paced life. However, he also had a sense of sadness with himself, which made his lyrics even more human, authentic and sincere.
During his 25 years of life, Tupac’s heart did not stop suffering even for a day. It was exactly because of sadness that Tupac managed to write some of his most beautiful lyrics and poems. Sadness was his companion until his last day, and only death managed to soothe his ever-restless soul. It is said that the greatest authors in human history were inseparable friends with sadness. We think this is quite true, and Tupac is undoubtedly one of them.
Here you can see 33 Tupac quotes about Sadness
“All that you wanna hear is that he’s guilty, he’s in jail, the reign of terror is over, the outlaw’s gone.”
“All I do is make raps. All I do is rap and talk loud. My biggest crime is talking loud, you know what I’m saying? Y’all don’t have nothing else besides that.”
“Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can see and feel.”
“Can’t close my eyes cause all I see is terror. I hate the man in the mirror cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer.”
“Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping its dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
“Don’t believe everything you hear. Real eyes, realize real lies.”
“Everybody’s at war with different things. I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.”
“I’m charged with being in concert with some guys. Where they at? Why me? ‘Cause I’m 2Pac”
“I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.”
“I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.”
“I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It’s horrible.”
“I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn’t commit.”
“I know what good morals are, but you’re supposed to disregard good morals when you’re living in a crazy, bad world. If you’re in hell, how can you live like an angel? You’re surrounded by devils, trying to be an angel? That’s like suicide.”
“I live the thug life, baby I’m hopeless.”
“I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren’t honorable.”
“I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That’s bad.”
“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”
“Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
“My life was lived through falling rain, so call on me if there be pain.”
“Niggaz don’t understand my exodus from the Thug Life so they speak like bitchez with they headz cut off, and that burns me 2 the fullest. What niggaz don’t see is Thug Life didn’t give birth 2 me I gave birth to Thug Life.”
“No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn’t glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It’s all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.”
“Only God can judge me.”
“Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?”
“The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.”
“There’s gonna be some stuff you gonna see that’s gonna make it hard to smile in the future, but through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit… remember that.”
“They got money for the war but can’t feed the poor.”
“We wouldn’t ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals; in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals. Don’t ask me why, thank God, and ask me how.”
“Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.”
“What makes me saying ‘I don’t give a f***,’ different from Patrick Henry saying ‘Give me liberty or give me death?’ What makes my freedom any different than Bosnians or whoever [America] wants to fight for this year? They should give money to the ghetto.”
“Where do you see yourself? – “Best case: in a cemetery. Not in a cemetery. Sprinkled in ashes, smoked up by my homies. Worst case… I mean that’s the worst case. That’s the worst case. That’s the worst case. Best case: multimillionaire.”
“Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight, Why am I trying to see.
When there aint nothing in sight, Why am I trying to give,
When no one gives me a try, Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?”
