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Quotes About Mood

By Secret Shifters, I mean things that can change your feelings in a snap
~ Rhonda Byrne
A low mood is not the time to analyze your life. To do so is emotional suicide. If you have a legitimate problem, it will still be there when your state of mind improves. The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously. The next time you feel low, for whatever reason, remind yourself, "This too shall pass." It will.
~ Richard Carlson
Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.
~ Richard Dean Anderson
The atmosphere in here—
~ Richard Matheson
The many uncatalogued volatile compounds breathed out by needles at night slow her heart rate, soften her breathing, and, if she's right, even alter her mood and thoughts. So many substances in woodland pharmacies that no one has yet identified. Powerful molecules in bark, pith, and leaves whose effects have yet to be discovered.
~ Richard Powers
instead of finishing up, he'd gone around to the south side and begun to scrape, an activity more in harmony with his mood. It felt far more satisfying to be peeling something away creating ugliness before restoring beauty.
~ Richard Russo
No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.
~ Richard Russo
The message from this type of work is simple – if you want to cheer yourself up, behave like a happy person.
~ Richard Wiseman
if you want to cheer yourself up, behave like a happy person.
~ Richard Wiseman
The plots and stories in the novels did not interest me so much as the point of view revealed. I gave myself over to each novel without reserve, without trying to criticize it; it was enough for me to see and feel something different. And for me, everything was something different. Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
~ Richard Wright
This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me.
~ Richard Wright
That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood.
~ Rick Riordan
Annabeth's shoulders ached. The elevator's easy-listening music didn't help. If all monsters had to hear that song about liking piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, no wonder they were in the mood for carnage when they reached the mortal world.
~ Rick Riordan
Happy the Dragon was not so happy.
~ Rick Riordan
It was like looking at the ocean: some days, you could tell what mood it was in. Most days, though, it was unreadable, mysterious.
~ Rick Riordan
feeling that always came with the rain and the dark. She'd just
~ Kate Atkinson
normally she restricts herself to a very narrow spectrum of emotions (irritable, irritated, irritating).
~ Kate Atkinson
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly upbraiding her husband, lamenting at Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself.
~ Kate Chopin
She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet, half-darkness which met her moods. But the voices were not soothing that came to her from the darkness and the sky above and the stars. They jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope.
~ Kate Chopin
It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood.
~ Kate Chopin
Or else she stayed indoors and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.
~ Kate Chopin
She had on a spangled top that sparkled like fish scales. Her hair was very yellow. She looked like a mermaid in a bad mood. (p. 82 RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE)
~ Kate DiCamillo
Emily felt churlish for being disappointed.
~ Katie Fforde
Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison