Quotes About Mood

The chief trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation of Humanity and Nature—the mood out of which he contemplates his subjects.

project aside for a while. Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year's Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his sister, the writer Mona Simpson. His wife and their three children had taken a quick trip to go skiing, but he was not healthy enough to join them. He was in a reflective mood, and we talked for more than an hour. He

En la pintura, las acciones de las figuras expresan, en todos los casos, la intención de su ánimo

Each period is dominated by a mood, with the result that most men fail to see the tyrant who rules over them.

Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

Happiness is a sad song.

One of the mysteries of music is that two can achieve together what one never could do alone. The effect is exponential. It's also the only activity on Planet Earth that can transport those who hear it from place A to place B in about two beats. It can shift a mood from laughter to tears to I-can-conquer-the-world to what-if and hope. It's the original time travel machine.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

Now Lewis joined in. 'A sicko walks into a bar,' he said. 'WHAM! And then i hit him with the bar again, an iron bar, and knock him flat, then i hit him again, and again and again until his brains are, like, smashed all over the pavement. And then i slice him up with my new katana!' 'Yeah, Lewis,' said Brooke. 'Funny joke. Way to lighten the mood, bruv.

und kalt und stürmisch, im Gesicht.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

Tea is a magical calming elixir — kind of like if coffee had a therapist.

I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands.

The sea has no mood except that of the sky and of its winds.

It is rather like living in a vast cosmic mood-swing here... I woke to trees iced in silver and an April sky, sunlight breaking through the clouds.

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

If we want our worship, or attempts at worship, to mean anything, we have to strive to conform it to the nature and will of God, and not to the mood or taste of the century.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Whatever the situation and however disheartening it may be, it is a great hour when a man ceases adopting difficulties as an excuse for despondency and tackles himself as the real problem. No mood need be his master.

Your angry and jealous and in the mood to do some forceful dentistry

This was a time when Movement poets such as Donald Davie, Elizabeth Jennings, John Wain, Philip Larkin, and Kingsley Amis dominated the post-war British poetry scene. Luke would later describe the Movement as "an expression of logic rather than myth, 'classical,' and esteemed principally as an instrument of stability." Hughes felt similarly. He associated the Movement poems with 'the post-war mood of having had enough.

It's just a guess," said Bramble after a moment, "but I don't think he's in the mood to see us.