William Faulkner Quotes

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

Want is misery.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

Misery is a communicable disease.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.

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

When things aren't going well it can feel like the world is against you and there's nowhere to turn.

There is too much unhappiness in football, no?

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?