Quotes About Struggle

I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!

When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived as a teenager through the time of a brutal dictator called Idi Amin. I fled and became a refugee.

Depression is something I've lived with since I was a teenager.

When I was a teenager, I was maybe a little bit angry.

I failed music when I was a teenager.

It is delicate being my age and trying to do all the regular teenager stuff, and then having that in the spotlight.

By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race, I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

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

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.