"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

""I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"What do you do in Physics Club?
Well, we talk about physics, and the elements of physics.
See, it's social. Demented and sad, but social.

--The Breakfast Club"
— John Hughes

""When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun -- that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays -- whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having -- that interlude -- the scrambly madness -- all that time I had before?' ""
— Douglas Coupland (Life After God)

"Stacey muttered, "But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want to start over in a new place. I haven't . . ." her voice trailed off and she looked away from Jason, hoping instead to find her words among the falling raindrops. "Do you ever feel like you aren't the person you're supposed to be? That you could be a different person - and have a better life - if things had been just a little different?""
— J.M. Reep (From "The Spring")

"Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the night of the big dance by herself in her bedroom, or the parents who foolishly believed a boy would arrive on their doorstep with flowers, a limo, and a promise to rescue their daughter from her solitude."
— J.M. Reep (from "Leah")

"Wer seinem Volk Angst macht, der braucht es [...] nicht zu fürchten."
— Heribert Prantl (Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht)

"Angst macht süchtig nach Strafrecht."
— Heribert Prantl (Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht)

"Weisheit kann Angst nicht bannen, Angst jedoch kann Weisheit bannen."
— Mahabharata. Bhagavadgita. English.

"Der Mensch hat eine instinktive Angst vor Trieben, die stärker als er selbst erscheinen."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off"
— Eric Bogosian (SubUrbia)

""I'm Allen Walker!"
"My life....is over...I'm going to die...."
-Sumon and Allen from D.Gray Man"
— Katsura Hoshino (D.Gray-Man, Volume 11)

"Kein Mensch, der in Furcht oder Sorge oder Chaos lebt, ist frei, aber wer sich von Sorgen, Furcht und Chaos befreit, wird dadurch auch aus der Sklaverei befreit."
— Epictetus

"The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses that the incontinent municipalities, Voorschoten and Leidschendam and Rijswijk and Zoetermeer, pooped over the rural spaces surrounding The Hague."
— Joseph O'Neill (Netherland)