43 Quotes About Angst

The state of the world is what sets our human condition. These quotes about angst are encouraging and bring to focus our relationship between the things around us.

“A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they’ve got all kinds of existential angst that they’re dealing with.”

“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.”

“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.”

“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”

“Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.”

“All teens have the desire to somehow run away.”

“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”

“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”

“Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It’s when you make your best friends–I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.”

“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.”

“I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.”

“I can be a bit grumpy. I’m full of angst, and hormones.”

“I don’t really have that much angst to get rid of.”

“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.”

“I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.”

“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.”

“I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that’s all you’ve got, it’s just boring. Everything I write, whether it’s happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I wasn’t a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.”

“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.”

“It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married – those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there’s like this extra 10 years of that angst.”

“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.”

“I’ve been in that angst of loneliness, where you’re really alone in the universe, except for the dog.”

“Let’s just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.”

“Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you’re trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.”

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

“My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.”

“The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.”

“The young always have the same problem–how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”

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

“There is that awful moment when you realize that you’re falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it’s not. It’s always a moment that’s full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other.”

“There was a time when a musician was forced to act in a video. Seeing a singer step too far outside of his comfort zone to pour all of his high-school-drama angst into a poorly scripted scenario was a sight to behold.”

“There’s a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there’s so much angst across the country.”

“To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.”

“To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.”

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

“Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”

“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.”

“We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can’t do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it’s the teenage angst they have to live with.”

“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.”

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he’d learned in seven years.”

“Without faith that there’s a world beyond the one we live in, I don’t see how it’s possible to get rid of angst.”

Any stage in our life can leave is with a feeling of angst.