Quotes About Angst

The Vienna Boys Choir decked out in top hats and evil clown make-up could be directly next to me pole-vaulting over giant rotating knives and I'd never know because I'm gazing into the distance deliberating some vaguely imperceptible angst.

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

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.

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.

the hero is a secret agent? Well, who gives a crap about the rest of his case once he has met the heroine. Time for moody angst!

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!

I don't know, I just feel like love isn't supposed to be so...angsty, you know? Like, if it works, it shouldn't be so tortured. -Oliver

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.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.

We don't have to convince the world that we're suffering to convince them that we're artists," Hart said, jabbing at Black Flag's angst-ridden style. "There are those that choose to take that course. There's nothing wrong with being happy.

Angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothed, and housed to have time for this much self pity.

You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced - like totally utterly convinced - that the world was going to blow itself to pieces.

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

I was filled with angst all the time, but when it came down to it, I dove into what was in front of me, and I always did my best. I invested 100 percent. And that's what saved me.

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.

Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.

Every word after that had been unintelligible, dissolved in amplification. Blackburn rather enjoyed that. He thought that any band that believed its lyrics were crucial was kidding itself. Kids out on Saturday night wanted to drink, dance, yell "Wooooooo!" and have sex with somebody. They didn't want to hear a bad poet bare the angst in his tortured and immature soul. They could go to college for that shit.

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.

I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

Dear Diary, my teen-angst bullshit now has a body count. —Heathers

Uno, de ningún modo debe, por lo tanto, ceder a la sensación magnificada de angustia, y escapar del temor para retroceder a la seguridad de la vida mezquina y cotidiana. Uno tiene que abrazar al temor y entregarse a él, ya que "el temor que siente el valiente"[16] es el estado emocional que lo prepara para la revelación final. Esa revelación final es la de la verdad de las metafísicas judeocristiana y hegeliana.