Top 100 Quotes About Angst
#1. Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get.
Miguel Syjuco
#2. If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday "feels," you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.
Thomm Quackenbush
#3. It's an open horizon before us, as far as the eye can see: no angst and no games, just mutual delight. So simple, but so rich. Like chocolate. Not a gold-dusted truffle or a foofy pastry tower teetering on a crystal platter, but a plain, honest bar of the best chocolate in the world.
Laini Taylor
#4. I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
Kate Dickie
#5. I can be a bit grumpy. I'm full of angst, and hormones.
Nicholas Hoult
#6. I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
Walton Goggins
#7. My secret is cool and mysterious like a jagged scar across my chest, and not dull and heavy like I gave up church buy not the angst.
J.C. Lillis
#8. 'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.
Marco Beltrami
#9. While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West that justifies the rap culture thinks that every Muslim terrorist bombing is an expression of economic angst or social alienation.
Ben Shapiro
#10. I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.
Alan Moore
#11. I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.
Jennifer Damiano
#12. What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
Paul Kalanithi
#13. I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
Nigella Lawson
#14. When we forgive, our emotions evolve and reveal the futility of carrying the baggage of anger, antipathy, hostility and hatred. We emerge out of those dark corridors of fear, angst and insecurity.
Balroop Singh
#15. In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
Khaled Hosseini
#16. We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.
Nigel Lythgoe
#17. Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
Ryan Reynolds
#18. I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
John Scalzi
#19. I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.
Toni Bentley
#20. If you can find happiness inside of you, nothing will be able to create angst in your mind.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Why is it women have to bring all this angst into sex? We should be more like men. In. Out. Over. Next.
Lara Rios
#22. Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
Robert Plant
#24. Angst is for the Middle Class - Marcus in Rough Canvas
Joey W. Hill
#25. I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.
Sylvester Stallone
#26. You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
David Foster Wallace
#27. There's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; I used to be one
Tammara Webber
#28. The path you create for yourself is the mark you leave behind when you're gone from this world. All beauty and angst is stopped by the grave. But your words, your laughter, your faith, and spirit, refuse to die with you. They remain in the hearts and minds of those you touched.
Eric Onyango Otieno
#29. As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
C.J. Box
#30. I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago' ...
Terence McKenna
#31. The angst about doing is more terrifying than the actual leap.
Melissa Keil
#32. I'd say I needed to find myself, if that didn't sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear.
Kelley Armstrong
#33. I've watched too many Kurosawa movies, she thought, but couldn't quite abandon the idea. The imagery was a lovely way of turning angst and suicidal ideation into honor and noble sacrifice.
James S.A. Corey
#34. At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.
Ariel Pink
#35. The whole place is a petri dish of angst, generated by kids whose parents gave up on them, which is the worst kind of angst there is. There are fights and ridiculous posturing on a daily basis.
Neal Shusterman
#36. I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
Jason Silva
#37. I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!
Iwan Rheon
#38. My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
Janet Fitch
#39. My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo shows up in 'Up.'
Bob Peterson
#40. I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
Meg Ryan
#41. Existential angst was far, far above her pay grade.
Emily Gould
#42. talking about their belief in Bitcoin's eventual success (and perhaps with a bit of angst over their skewering in The Social Network): "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then you win.
Kashmir Hill
#43. I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.
Molly Ringwald
#44. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.
William Shatner
#45. Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.
Carolyn Jones
#46. I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.
Delia Sherman
#47. I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.
Rachel Hollis
#48. People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.
Lucinda Williams
#49. I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
Merrill Markoe
#50. The fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.
Jim Goad
#51. I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.
Miranda Richardson
#52. I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.
Ana Ortiz
#53. To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.
Jane Lynch
#54. My life," she said dramatically, with her eyes closed, "is one heaping bowl of warmed-over despair, seasoned with equal dashes of aggravation and angst!
Rick Detorie
#55. I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.
Pink
#56. The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
Jerry Garcia
#57. No one wants to pay for a look at another person's angst.
Dan Simmons
#58. I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: "Nobody understands me" and "I'm the only genius in the world" and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.
Philip Pullman
#59. I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.
Lauren Mayberry
#60. Finally told her son the gruesome truth about his life. I could have told them about the feeling of not knowing your roots, and about the angst you suffer when you discover you will be forever denied access to it. It's a feeling we know better than anyone else.
Erik Valeur
#61. Teen angst is so boring, isn't it? I try so hard not to be a cliche, but it's like written in my DNA to hate my parents and be totally unsatisfied with everything. I wonder if there's anyone our age who actually likes their life.
Amy Reed
#62. As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.
Helen Fielding
#63. I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.
Daria Werbowy
#64. What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable happily-ever-after that made me love and hate the book at the same time.
J. Lynn
#65. You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.
Nic Sheff
#66. I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.
Cassandra Clare
#67. I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
Dave Davies
#68. People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.
Alison Owen
#69. My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.
Mark Billingham
#70. And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.
Catherynne M Valente
#71. Passing Time was a show that captured all the angst of high school life - all the highs and lows, all the absurdities - and then made them higher and lower and more absurd.
Rainbow Rowell
#72. Can we save the live demo for later, please? Bean Sidhe in angst, here.
Rachel Vincent
#73. Moreover, you can't stand so much as an hour of your own company
or spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truant
or fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.
But it's no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels
Horace
#74. I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.
Charlotte Rampling
#75. I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.
George Pattison
#76. As a teen, I was an angst on wheels, and as an adult, I'm essentially a young, half-Greek Larry David in heels-incapable of hiding discomfort, dissatisfaction, or doubt, inescapably myself and often honest to a fault.
Sophia Amoruso
#77. I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.
Elizabeth Kostova
#78. Telling someone to "follow their passion" is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst.
Cal Newport
#79. Ugh. A club for Prodigium? That conjured up images of way more velvet and dry ice and angst than I was up for.
Rachel Hawkins
#80. I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.
Sergey Brin
#81. Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
Avi Arad
#82. Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo.
Kate Levinson
#83. The one I have the most angst towards would be YouTube. We had an opportunity to invest, and I just got nervous about the media industry's response to the unlicensed content on the site.
Peter Fenton
#84. I want so much not to do the teenage angst thing, but I have to tell you that I hate the life that, according to my mother, I'm not actually having.
Melina Marchetta
#85. I've lived my life devoid of the whole teenage angst for so long, I'm not sure I can handle all this. I'm not built dor it.
Lindsey Ouimet
#86. Gradually her fear faded to the existential angst that incessantly haunts all mankind in modernity.
Nell Zink
#87. I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.
Jamie Bell
#88. I'm not thrilled. And I totally reserve the right to angst over all this later. But honestly, Mom? Right now, I'm so happy to see you that I wouldn't care if you're secretly a ninja sent from the future to destroy kittens and rainbows.
Rachel Hawkins
#89. I'm Russian," Misha said with the faintest hint of a smile. "We angst, Max."
"I see that. Well, I'm American. We force shit on other people if we think they need it.
Avon Gale
#90. If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable.
James Salter
#91. I believe in God, Sunshine. I've always believed that God exists," he says. And what he says next isn't self-pity or angst or melodrama. It's truth. "I just know that he hates me." Maybe
Katja Millay
#92. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.
Cassandra Clare
#93. technics ... is the means through which man becomes a work of his own.... What is so frightening about technics is nothing more than the angst man feels before, and in, the exposure of his existence to the abyss of his lack of essence."6
Frances Dyson
#94. I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
Magda Apanowicz
#95. We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution.
Sonia Marciano
#96. What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
S.J. Rozan
#97. In fact all country music - with its wailing hearts, tearful angst, and neatly trimmed facial hair - is a little too gay for its own good.
Wallace Godfrey
#98. My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.
Thalia
#99. Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.
Carol Berg
#100. The magic of boy meets girl, the angst of catch and release, the serendipity of meant-to-be, It doesn't matter if a romantic comedy follows a predictable course, we respond because it's rooted in truth. In magic.
Victoria Van Tiem
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