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Quotes About Mood

It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.
~ Yann Martel
I knew aerobic exercise was a powerful antidepressant, but I hadn't realized it could be so profoundly mood stabilizing and--I hate to use the word--meditative. If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.
~ Christopher McDougall
Joy and anger, sorrow and happiness, caution and remorse Come upon us by turns, with ever changing mood. They come like music from hollows, like wood when played by the wind, or how mushrooms grow from the damp. Daily and nightly they alternate within but we cannot tell whence they spring. Without these emotions I should not be. Without me, they would have no instrument
~ Unknown
His mood was so black that getting murdered was beginning to seem appealing
~ Cinda Williams Chima
She was the sort of person whose mood preceded her into the room whenever she arrived, an extra presence that could not be ignored.
~ Claire Tomalin
Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.
~ Clarice Lispector
Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to feel melancholy and pensive.
~ Clarice Lispector
Eu escrevo à meia-noite porque sou escuro. Ângela escreve de dia porque é quase sempre luz alegre.
~ Clarice Lispector
Sou como você me vê. Posso ser leve como uma brisa ou forte como uma ventania. Depende de quando e como você me vê passar.
~ Clarice Lispector
If my life is transformed into it-self, the thing I today call sensitivity will not exist — it will be called indifference. But I cannot yet grasp that way. It is as if hundreds of thousands of years from now we are finally no longer what we feel and think: we shall have something that more closely resembles a "mood" than an idea. We shall be the living matter revealing itself directly, ignorant of word, surpassing thought which is always grotesque.
~ Clarice Lispector
To play the violin it is necessary to possess certain habits, skills, knowledge, and talents, to be in the mood to play, and (as the old joke goes) to have a violin. But violin playing is neither the habits, skills, knowledge and so on, nor the mood, nor . . . the violin.
~ Clifford Geertz
elle ne pouvait pas comprendre que l'humeur sensuelle d'un homme est une saison brève, dont le retour incertain n'est jamais un recommencement.
~ Colette
Je ne parviens pas à m'expliquer comment la joie de mes réveils s'assombrit graduellement, dans le jour tombant, jusqu'à la mélancolie et au recroquevillement farouche.
~ Colette
Chocolate knows no boundaries; speaks all languages; comes in all sizes; is woven through many cultures and disciplines ... it impacts mood, health, and economics, and it is a part of our lives from early childhood through the elderly years.
~ Unknown
Suzanne was so crabby and bossy every day.
~ Unknown
I truly believe I should be a better man if the weather were better.
~ Hilary Mantel
Her mood was suddenly in free fall, a state she knew all too well. A heaviness inside. A hollow loneliness. A need to either quarrel or cry. A downward plunge that could only be escaped by huge loss of temper, howling for her mother, or what people like teachers called going too far. Trouble on the way.
~ Hilary McKay
If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.
~ Hippocrates
You're in a prickly mood,' he tells me. As though I am not all-over briars at all times.
~ Holly Black
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
~ Unknown
Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least.
~ Unknown
They both went to opposite sides of the bed, snapped on their bedside lamps and pulled back the cover in a smooth, practiced, synchronized move that proved, depending on Madeline's mood, that they either had the perfect marriage or that they were stuck in a middle-class suburban rut and they needed to sell the house and go traveling around India.
~ Liane Moriarty
Sometimes it was exhilaratingly easy to be happy again. Other times they found that they did have to "try".
~ Liane Moriarty
Coffee! No, wait, tea!" A decision like this one would give
~ Liane Moriarty