Top 30 Chester Bennington Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.”

— Chester Bennington

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2. “You can’t be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live.”

— Chester Bennington

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3. “I’m strong on the outside, not all the way through. I’ve never been perfect, but neither have you.”

— Chester Bennington

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4. “What’s the worst thing I’ve stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.”

— Chester Bennington

5. “Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.”

— Chester Bennington

6. “It’s cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I’ve been going through in one way or another.”

— Chester Bennington

Featured in: Recovery Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes, Addiction Quotes

7. “You’re constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you’ve made it.”

— Chester Bennington

8. “Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world – kids who don’t want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.”

— Chester Bennington

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9. “I don’t like to hold back, because that’s how you hurt yourself.”

— Chester Bennington

10. “Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone’s sleeping.”

— Chester Bennington

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11. “Success is nice, but it shouldn’t be the only reason why you’re a musician.”

— Chester Bennington

12. “Our Fans are the best fans in the world, don’t mess with them.”

— Chester Bennington

13. “I’ve tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it doesn’t even matter.”

— Chester Bennington

Featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Depression Quotes, Demotivational Quotes, Disappointment Quotes

14. “When I’m writing, I’m constantly thinking about myself, because it’s the only experience I have to draw on. And I don’t see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that’s why the fans are there.”

— Chester Bennington

15. “I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.”

— Chester Bennington

16. “You think I’m stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I’m stupid.”

— Chester Bennington

17. “Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.”

— Chester Bennington

18. “There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn’t fanatical.”

— Chester Bennington

19. “It’s the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that’s something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.”

— Chester Bennington

20. “My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside.”

— Chester Bennington

21. “The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV.”

— Chester Bennington

22. “It’s not cool to be an alcoholic.”

— Chester Bennington

23. “I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I’m sleeping.”

— Chester Bennington

24. “If fans come up to me, I talk to them.”

— Chester Bennington

25. “I don’t go out and pick fights.”

— Chester Bennington

26. “Touring for two years is excruciating.”

— Chester Bennington

27. “For me, you say the words ‘concept record,’ and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.”

— Chester Bennington

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28. “To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.”

— Chester Bennington

29. “We’d like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.”

— Chester Bennington

30. “When you’re young artist, it’s really important to like pay attention to what you’re doing and be honest with yourself and in the creative proccess.”

— Chester Bennington