Angst Quotes - Page 5

• The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Gay, Singing, Turns

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “The Rules of Attraction”, p.203, Pan Macmillan

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• I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Girl, Book, College

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• And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Despair, Rewards, Conflict

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.23, Basic Books

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• I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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• 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.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Drug, Overcoming, Pills

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• Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.

  Winona Ryder

  Bullshit, Heathers, Diaries

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• Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation.

  John MacLachlan Gray

  Regret, Emotional, Vocabulary

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• The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Political, Doe

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• I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

  Sergey Brin

  People, Mountain, Existential Angst

  "Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants more computers in schools" by Dan Fost, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 28, 2009.

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• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

  Mary Karr

  Laughter, Book, Reading

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• Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Struggle, Book

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• Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.

  Steve Almond

  Powerful, Political, Lazy

  "The Joke’s on You" by Steve Almond, The Baffler, No. 20, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

  Justin Halpern

  Writing, Kids, Journal

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• There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

  Laurie Colwin

  Baseball, Funny Inspirational, Party

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• Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

  Vikram Chatwal

  Meditation, Used, Form

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• I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

  Kate Dickie

  Matter

  "Kate Dickie: 'I've been angst-ridden all my life'". Interview with Jane Graham, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2010.

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• To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.

  Jane Lynch

  Easier, Stills, This Day

  "Jane Lynch Talks About the GLEE Super Bowl Episode and Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2011.

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• I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

  Ana Ortiz

  Hate, Kids, Parent

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• I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

  Shailene Woodley

  Teenager, Thinking, People

  "Shailene Woodley Interview the Descendants". Press Day Interview, collider.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Superhero power... I probably would just want to fly. I definitely would not want to be able to see through walls. I think walls are there for a reason. People put them up for a reason. You don't want to be looking through them. That would only cause nothing but misery and angst to know what's happening behind people's walls.

  Brian Regan

  Wall, Thinking, People

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• I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

  Ariel Pink

  Inspiration, Thinking, Burn Out

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Teenage, Thinking

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• I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.

  George Pattison

  Teenage, Moving, Loss

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

  Dar Williams

  Bullshit, Feelings, Towns

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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