Top 66 Angst Quotes

The great thing about ‘The Office’ and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it’s mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

When I was in high school, I was writing a lot. I dealt with my high school angst by writing short plays and short films. I was obsessed with reading ‘Entertainment Weekly’ and ‘Premiere’ and ‘Movieline’ and all those magazines.

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

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.

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

Each generation needs a ‘Spider-Man’ to mirror their angst.

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.

It’s going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates’ teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives.

Anyone who’s followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.

It’s not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger – it’s what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

Art is not only about angst.

Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.

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.

One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I’m never going to be Sid Vicious.

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

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

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’m a songwriter who’s put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

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.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

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.

Whether it’s angst or jealousy, catfights always have to come from the wellspring of the emotion of the character.

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.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I’ve gotten to a place where I’m very comfortable with who I am.

When I see a film, I’ll remember that there was a time when it wasn’t working, and there was some pain and angst in order to get it to work.

You don’t have to be singing songs about angst and pain to be credible.

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 have no angst that I have not got the Bharat Ratna, it does not matter to me.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

People are so terrified of other people. I see it in my generation a lot. There’s so much anxiety and angst, and the pressure just keeps getting worse.

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.

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.

I don’t want to be that artist who’s doing the teenage angst thing and draw it out my whole career.

One of the biggest factors fueling the angst over drug prices in the U.S. is that some older medicines that should be sold cheaply as generics are still priced very high, often owing to a dwindling number of generic competitors and the rising cost of producing these drugs.

Sports are the ultimate secular religion. Instead of being worried about whether your kids will be okay or how your job is going, you have your team, and you can focus all of your angst and your hopes and dreams on your team. I am in no way saying it always relieves any of this!

I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric. The rhetoric has been outrageous: The finger-pointing, the tone, the angst, and the anger directed at Donald Trump, his supporters – really, then, some people react to things like that; people get angry as well, and you fuel the fires.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don’t belong, that our generation doesn’t belong.

While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West that justifies the rap culture thinks that every Muslim terrorist bombing is an expression of economic angst or social alienation.

I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.

I don’t get hung up a lot on angst.

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.

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It’s so funny. What is that? I don’t even know. But I loved it.

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.

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

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

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.

We’re both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I’m just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I’m writing about more specific issues.

My mother was a Muslim and dad a Hindu. I got the best upbringing that anyone could. Never did I see any angst in my family owing to that: each practiced their own religion. My existence is the harmony that these two communities can achieve if they try.

You can’t be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!

I understand the angst of a filmmaker.

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

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They’ve got other fish to fry. They’d rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

When you’ve got kids, you don’t want to pass on the angst and the anxiety.

It’s in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst.

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.

The one thing that I know from the personal experiences that I’ve had with hackers and from people in tech who are brilliant at this thing, is there’s a lot of angst.