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Quotes About Angst

O herói, o santo, o gênio ou o profeta do nosso tempo há de ser neurótico. O sujeito se angustia porque se opõe a um mundo que fracassou
~ Nelson Rodrigues
Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.
~ Peter Hook
With the first album, there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the whole thing, but I really didn't know what I was getting into.
~ Paolo Nutini
I just wanted them to die, said Poison. They didn't have to make such a drama about it.
~ Chris Wooding
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
~ Christopher Hitchens
They agreed, tacitly, to admire—but not covet—the red flowers. Mrs. Korjev liked the very redness of them. She had always been angry that the Communists had co-opted that color, for otherwise it would have evoked an unbridled happiness in her. Then again, the Russian soul, conditioned by a thousand years of angst, really wasn't equipped for unbridled happiness, so it was probably for the best.
~ Christopher Moore
This is teenage madness.
~ Travis Thrasher
Teenage angst has paid off wellNow I'm bored and old.
~ Kurt Cobain
Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend
~ Kurt Cobain
Oh, come on, Jace," Clary said. "You can't wait for perfect behavior from everyone. Adults screw up too. Go back to the Institute and talk to her rationally. Be a man." "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
Teenagers," said Luke, as if it were the filthiest word he knew.
~ Cassandra Clare
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
Hey, I was fifteen. Drama was my contribution to the world.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they're usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That's all they're about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her. 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
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
Jahno asked with a stymied scholar's anguish.
~ Jacqueline Carey
I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.
~ Anohni
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
It has become all too typical of western youth, to mistake their personal angst for a universal political cause.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Me, I'm a bloody tissue sample dried on a bare mattress in my room at the Paper Street Soap Company.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Jack's wasted life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Artists often feel sad without knowing why. They sense the cruel inevitability of fate. They smell the coppery scent of death. All artists live in a permanent state of angst knowing that what they have created could have been better.
~ Clifford Thurlow
poco después de mi regreso a la civilización, tuve otro ataque de locura (si puede aplicarse ese término cruel a la melancolía y a una sensación de angustia insoportable).
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar