Angst Quotes - page 2

Modern disillusion is unlikely to last forever, and nothing rings so hollow as the angst of yesterday. (Robertson Davies)
What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening. View quote
Bono
Teenage angst has paid off well Now I'm bored and old. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing. View quote
Per Petterson
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst. View quote
Rob Sheffield
To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. View quote
Garth Stein
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from. View quote
Natalie Imbruglia
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. View quote
Avi Arad
I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst. View quote
David Cook
I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst. View quote
Jamie Bell
To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to. (Jane Lynch)
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive. View quote
Jay Sekulow
You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst. View quote
Jim Broadbent
Art is not only about angst. View quote
John Corigliano
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.' View quote
Bob Peterson
When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy. View quote
Matt Lucas
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. View quote
Merrill Markoe
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. View quote
Michael Eisner
It's going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates' teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives. View quote
Mikko Hypponen
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. View quote
Pink
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. (Paula Cole)
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. View quote
Thalia
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. View quote
Walton Goggins
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. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I don't see myself, for example, writing about cultural dichotomies, but about human connections. All of us go through angst and identity crises. And even when you write in a specific context, you still tap into that subtext of emotions that we all feel about love and hope, and mothers and obligations and responsibilities. View quote
Amy Tan