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Quotes About Angst

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
~ Emil Cioran
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
~ Emil Cioran
Reprosurile,furiile, amaraciuniile mele provin, toate, dintr-o nemultumire de mine insumi pe care nimeni nu va putea vreodata s-o simta cu aceeasi intensitate.Sila de mine insumi, sila de lume.
~ Emil Cioran
Encontramos, na angústia dos que habitam regiões insólitas, o aspecto demoníaco da vida, mas também sua insignificância, o que explica que ela seja privilégio dos medíocres. Somente estes últimos vivem a uma temperatura normal; os outros, um fogo devorante os consome.
~ Emil Cioran
The man was in his late thirties, with coarse black hair and a powerfully angled face. The horse with him made a sudden noise, a high whining sound, and its graceful head tossed, jerked. The man let the reins go, and the horse galloped to the fence where Zeke stood waiting. Mattie glanced at him. He'd climbed onto the fence and leaned over the top, softly whistling a series of notes. On his face was an expression Mattie had never seen—equal parts joy and sorrow.
~ Barbara Samuel
I used to be one of those guys with a lot of angst, you know? I just don't anymore. I'm not angst-ridden anymore. I've faced reality of what I am and what I have to do in life.
~ Michael Madsen
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
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
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
~ Rainn Wilson
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
~ Emil Cioran
I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.
~ David Thewlis
caffeine buzz liquid thrill, chills slowly going down kinda wicked 'n edgy like legs spread wide in razor wrapped dreams, like looking glass lust on lsd, like wigged out flesh of lightening fear, like fried out bits of lovers angst, i lust at you, i live for you, i want you here w/ me
~ Scott C. Holstad
we dream of peace and tranquility, the day when we no longer despair but our self-imposed angst cannot be avoided. we can't run. it won't go away. the noises i hear in my hell are very real and i'll continue to exist in an interested sort of anguish, looking for bloodstains on acid free sidewalks.
~ Scott C. Holstad
A thirteen year olds heart shouldn't feel like this.
~ Markus Zusak
I don't like people. They fuck me up.
~ Stephen King
I can be a bit grumpy. I'm full of angst, and hormones.
~ Nicholas Hoult
Our companies are active worldwide. I don't detect globalisation angst among them.
~ Sebastian Kurz
People are so terrified of other people. I see it in my generation a lot. There's so much anxiety and angst, and the pressure just keeps getting worse.
~ Selena Gomez
Around age twenty-six, in an effort to stave off thirty, I began embracing the new alternative angst bands, like Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Bush, Stone Temple Pilots, et cetera, but at thirty, little of that remains. At thirty, you're back to the comforting sounds you grew up with. You have enough genuine angst of your own, you don't need it in your music.
~ Jonathan Tropper
A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.
~ Roland Orzabal
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
~ Paul Kalanithi
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
~ Ang Lee
You've got something really angsty for me to play? Bring it on. Most of the time, I'm goofing around and doing impressions of people, so that's nice.
~ Kieran Bew
Pero lo peor, pese a todo, no es que haya muchas inexactitudes y mentiras, pues eso quizá sea una característica de todas las memorias. Lo peor es que recordar y poner en el papel lo recordado no trae alivio alguno. En vez de disminuir, las preguntas se multiplican, y la angustia se hace más honda.
~ Bernardo Atxaga