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Quotes About Mood

Succede per il cattivo umore come per la pigrizia; anzi esso è proprio una specie di pigrizia. Non vi siamo portati per natura, ma se abbiamo una volta la forza di liberarcene, il lavoro si svolge facilmente e troviamo un vero piacere nell'attività».
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lei chiama il cattivo umore un vizio; mi sembra esagerato». «A me non sembra», ribattei, «perché merita di essere chiamato vizio tutto ciò che danneggi noi stessi e gli altri. Come non bastasse il fatto che non siamo capaci di renderci felici l'uno con l'altro così dovremmo anche toglierci l'un con l'altro il piacere che a volte il nostro cuore riesce a procurarsi? »
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So fühlt man Absicht und man ist verstimmt.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Succede per il cattivo umore come per la pigrizia. Noi vi siamo portati per natura, ma se abbiamo una volta la forza di liberarcene, il lavoro si svolge facilmente e troviamo un vero piacere nell'attività».
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's important to try to write when you are in the wrong mood or when the weather is wrong.
~ John Ashbery
It was always November there.
~ John Ashbery
I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
~ John Belushi
Sometimes I just can't face going through with breakfast.
~ John Berendt
Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.
~ John Bradshaw
On average, individuals with high income are in a better mood than people with lower income, but the difference is about a third as large as most people expect.
~ John Brockman
In the stock market, however, as de la Vega points out, "the news [as such] is often of little value;" in the short run, the mood of the investors is what counts.
~ John Brooks
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
~ John Burroughs
Anyway, so he bounces in on his white horse like a big perfumed tea cozy, getting involved in affairs that are none of his business, and next thing you know she wakes up and—ooooh!—was she in a bad mood.
~ John Connolly
Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.
~ John Connolly
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
~ John Cusack
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
~ John Drinkwater
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
~ John Drinkwater
But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
~ Edward Furlong
To be clear: the West's souring mood is about the psychology of dashed expectations rather than the decline in material comforts.
~ Edward Luce
Advertisers will want, more generally, to avoid programs with serious complexities and disturbing controversies that interfere with the "buying mood." They seek programs that will lightly entertain and thus fit in with the spirit of the primary purpose of program purchases—the dissemination of a selling message.
~ Edward S. Herman
Every weather is enjoyable if your feelings are delightful.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he's in a good mood.
~ Eileen Wilks
many HSPs have Seasonal Affective Disorder. This does not mean every HSP; it is just a bit more common in us.
~ Elaine N. Aron
There was a poem with that mood by Pasternak: "Don't sleep, don't sleep, artist." It sounded better in Russian, because the word for "artist" had three syllables, it was an amphibrach, like "spaghetti," or "appendix." Don't sleep, don't sleep, gorilla, I thought as I went down the elevator to the subway platform.
~ Elif Batuman