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Quotes About Mood

A positive emotional state is ideal for creative thought, but it is not very well suited for getting things done.
~ Donald A. Norman
I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.
~ Donald Miller
I didn't want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasn't trying to weasel out of anything, I just wasn't in the mood to be on earth that night.
~ Donald Miller
Una cosa era ver un cuadro en un museo, pero contemplarlo bajo todas esas luces, estados anímicos y estaciones diferentes era apreciarlo de mil formas distintas; guardarlo encerrado en la oscuridad —un objeto hecho de luz, que solo vivía en la luz— no estaba bien por muchas razones que no sabría explicar.
~ Donna Tartt
incidents of virtually no significance threw me to the stars or plunged me into speechless depressions
~ Donna Tartt
It was one thing to see a painting in a museum but to see it in all those lights and moods amd seasons was to see it a thousamd different ways
~ Donna Tartt
I have got into one of my moping moods tonight,' said my father, after a silence; then quoting Shakespeare, whom, by way of keeping up our English, he used to read aloud, he said: 'In truth I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I got it – came by it . . . I forget the rest.
~ Unknown
All Euphoria is followed by Depression.
~ Unknown
Can you giggle?" he asked. "I don't giggle, Jason. I can…chuckle.
~ Jack Campbell
When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.
~ Jackie Kay
Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
Try to be happy, if only for the purpose of setting an example
~ Jacques Prévert
He does not trust her: she will claim to be in a bad mood when she is not, and then require him to be kind to her.
~ Lydia Davis
I found out that the sunshine in New Mexico could do almost anything with one: make one well if one felt ill, or change a dark mood and lighten it. It entered into one's deepest places and melted the thick, slow densities. It made one feel good. That is, alive.
~ Unknown
woman is like a wave. When she feels loved her self-esteem rises and falls in a wave motion. When she is feeling really good, she will reach a peak, but then suddenly her mood may change and her wave crashes down. This crash is temporary. After she reaches bottom suddenly her mood will shift and she will again feel good about herself. Automatically her wave begins to rise back up.
~ John Gray
They may even change outfits several times a day as their mood changes.
~ John Gray
They do not wear uniforms like the Martians (to reveal their competence). On the contrary, they enjoy wearing a different outfit every day, according to how they are feeling. Personal expression, especially of their feelings, is very important. They may even change outfits several times a day as their mood changes.
~ John Gray
answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.
~ John Grisham
His outlook was typically one of gloom.
~ John Heaton
Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The Reichman brothers, with Robert Campeau the Canadian gift to financial excess, are indubitably broke with depressive effect on the banks that were captured by their euphoric mood.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
When a mood of excitement pervades a market or surrounds an investment prospect, when there is a claim of unique opportunity based on special foresight, all sensible people should circle the wagons; it is the time for caution.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.
~ John Lennon
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
~ Daniel Kahneman