Despair Quote by Rick Detorie

Sometime in my 20s, a wise mentor said something that dramatically changed my outlook and that has stayed with me ever since. She told…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

— Robert Plant

What if there is no dirt on Merjack? Oh, I can answer this one. (Omari raised his hand like he was in a classroom,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“My darling goddaughter, Olivia, was the little girl of my friends, Max and Jeff. She was turning four, and it was time to transition…

— Amber Kell

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…

— Nigel Lythgoe

“Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it.”

— Skid Row

I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved.…

— Philip Pullman

“She stood at the edge of everything she once believed, and it was quiet—too quiet—like the moment a soul decides whether to break or…

— Anonymous

A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.

— Roland Orzabal

I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but…

— George Pattison

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

— Paula Cole

“I tried to distract myself by reading the various things that people had carved into the tabletop over the years. I traced my finger…

— Sara C. Roethle