Quotes About Angst

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I'm singing and it feels heavy, but not always.

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

I think with '10 Things I Hate About You,' I was an angsty teenager, and in some ways, I responded to that character. That was one of my first big jobs, so I think maybe I lucked out, and casting thought that I was a good match for it. Since then, as I've gotten older, I'm a much more happy, joyful, almost carefree person.

Both sides in Germany's cultural battle elevated feeling above reason. And both sides experienced the same basic kind of feeling. The left called it alienation or the angst of nothingness. The right called it götterdämmerung or the philosophy of Schopenhauer. The common denominator is the conviction of doom.

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

Me ha parecido que la escritura debería tender a esto, a esta impresión que provoca la escena del acto sexual, a esta angustia y a este estupor, a una suspensión del juicio moral.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

En mi corazón hay una paz de angustia, y mi sosiego está hecho de resignación.

Considerar nuestra angustia más profunda como un incidente sin importancia, no sólo en la vida del universo, sino en la de nuestra propia alma, es el principio de la sabiduría.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.

Voltei só para mim mesmo, muito contente de ser ainda mais infeliz do que fora, porque trouxera para a minha solidão uma nova forma de angústia e qualquer coisa que se parecia a sentimento verdadeiro.

My life is utterly meaningless

Mon Dieu ! mon Dieu ! dit Morrel, vous m'épouvantez, comte, avec ce sang-froid. Pouvez-vous donc quelque chose contre la mort ? Êtes-vous plus qu'un homme ? Êtes-vous un ange ? Êtes-vous Dieu ?'' Et le jeune homme, qu'aucun danger n'avait fait reculer d'un pas, reculait devant Monte-Cristo , saisi d'une indicible terreur. Mais Monte-Cristo le regarda avec un sourire à la fois si mélancolique et si doux, que Maximilien sentit les larmes poindre dans ses yeux.

Angst is for the Middle Class" - Marcus in Rough Canvas

Angst is the indulgence of the middle class.

Necesito que el silencio sea sólido, blindado, definitivo. Si aparecieran las palabras el hechizo se rompería y me ganaría la culpa. Y con la culpa, la angustia.