Quotes About Mood

had to tell Jimmy to lighten up

The temper of the multitude is fickle

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

When life is not worth living, everything becomes a pretext for ridding ourselves of it. . . . There is a collective mood, as there is an individual mood, that inclines nations to sadness. . . . For individuals are too closely involved in the life of society for it to be sick without their being affected. Its suffering inevitably becomes theirs. ÉMILE DURKHEIM, On Suicide1

We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable.

That savage, he thought. Don't think you can push me aside so easily. Shark attack! Look out, cara, he is swimming toward you." Aidan deliberately lightened the mood between Alexandria and himself.

Sorry, ma'am. We can't let you do that either. He's in a much better mood when he gets laid regularly.

I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain, but you'd be surprised if you knew what it had meant to me, at critical moments of my life, to be dressed exactly in accordance with my mood. It gives one such confidence, I think.

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, according to his mood.

There's too much day when you get up in the morning,' Moo Shoes whined. 'How do they do it? Citizens?' 'Suckers,' I said. 'You notice everyone is in a really foul mood in the morning? I don't recommend it.

The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.

Sally felt herself getting in the mood to tell some really great lies. It was a special feeling of power.

The excitement and energy you enjoy during a good mood paint a rosy picture of all you encounter. This leaves you far more likely to make impulsive decisions that ignore the potential consequences of your actions. Stay aware of your good moods and the foolish decisions these moods can lead to, and you'll be able to enjoy feeling good without any regrets.

Admit to yourself that your bad mood is hanging a cloud over everything you see, and remind yourself that your moods are not permanent.

Taking a moment here and there to check yourself will allow you to understand your mood before it sets the tone for the rest of your day.

Emotions are contagious, meaning they spread from one or two people until there's a palpable and collective mood that you will feel at some level.

My soul is the gods'; my heart is yours. Leiard smiled—a sly, secretive smile. It was an expression she had never seen him wear before. Was this just her mind embellishing the mood she sensed from him? I've always suspected souls were a concept the gods invented to encourage people to serve them. In fact, I once had a conversation with a god in which he admitted that —

Jacopo seemed to have forgotten his elegiac mood and competed with Diotallevi in imagining absurd machines—only to discover, each time, that the machines had already been invented.

When he came home that night he was in a very somber mood, having begun to see at last how those might be right who had laughed at him for his faith in America.

Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They

I'm dressed appropriate for the season mama, I'm dressed appropriately for the season.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Sometimes a mood changes on its own... Sometimes it needs a shove.