Angst Quotes - Page 6

• As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

  Helen Fielding

  Wrestling, Dying Alone, Balance

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• 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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• To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

  Garth Stein

  Life, Joy, Encounters

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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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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• 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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• 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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