Quotes About Mood

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract.

I don't pray when I'm in the mood anymore then I wash dishes when I'm in the mood. Pray 'til you feel like praying.

I just don't know anymore. God! I'm in a bad mood! It's like walking around in an itchy coat.

She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips.

And for heaven's sake don't play Bach," ordered Randy. "It's so jumpy for today." Rush

If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you.

Felipe seemed increasingly stuck in that awful breed of mood where any glitch or hassle whatsoever becomes almost physically intolerable. This was unfortunate, because traveling—particularly the cheap and dirty traveling we were undertaking—is pretty much nothing but one glitch and hassle after another, interrupted by the occasional stunning sunset

Now it's dusk, bats swooping and rising along the lawn, against the sea. Would that she could join them-flap wings, fly blind, beat back her foul mood.

It went on raining. Day after day. Three days, to be precise. I didn't mind. At that point I'd have considered sunlight a personal insult.

I was not unsympathetic with John's mood, but I did hope he was not about to transfer his affections from Charity to the mummy. Charity had not encouraged him, but there can be no more unresponsive recipient of love than a woman who has been dead for seventeen hundred years, give or take a century.

A great need of something to lean on, and a great weariness of independence and responsibility took possession of my soul; and looking round for support and comfort in that transitory mood, the emptiness of the present and the blankness of the future sent me back to the past with all its ghosts.

Put out? My dear Gertrud, I have been thinking of very serious things. You cannot expect me to frolic along paths of thought that lead to mighty and unpleasant truths. Why should I always smile? I am not a Cheshire cat.

No blandishments could make those cats stir if they weren't in the mood, and one does want whatever one is calling to come.

The room was dim, as though drenched in perpetual afternoon.

Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications

I went outside mournful, and I hit pure air. The air was full of birdsong. I went outside expecting rain but it was sunny, it was so suddenly, so openly sunny, with so sharp a spring light coming off the river, that I went down the side of the riverbank and sat in among the daffodils.

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

Fifteen, that's the age when the only world event that counts is whatever mood you're in that day.

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.

She's kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.

A cute outfit can really make your day. If I wear something I look good in, my mood just goes way up.