Quotes About Mood

The willingness to experience and accept our feelings carries no implication that emotions are to have the last word on what we do. I may not be in the mood to work today; I can acknowledge my feelings, experience them, accept them—and then go to work. I will work with a clearer mind because I have not begun the day with self-deception.

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

Next to the lightest heart, the heaviest is apt to be most playful.

Moonlight, in a familiar room . . . is a medium the most suitable for a romance-writer.

Jollity and gloom were contending for an empire.

naturally, we are all caught in downmoods, it's a matter of chemical imbalance and an existence which, at times, seems to forbid any real chance at happiness.

Being suicidal is really tiring. A lot of suicides are so lacking in affect and so lethargic that they aren't able to kill themselves until their mood improves—spring, for that reason, has the highest rate of what people in the business call "completed" suicides.

I have described, in the second chapter, the gait and appearance of a dog when cheerful, and the marked antithesis presented by the same animal when dejected and disappointed, with his head, ears, body, tail, and chops drooping, and eyes dull.

Emma has switched from sanguine to sanguinary in a matter of seconds

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.

Sometimes I want to listen to sad music, sometimes something fun and sometimes you're in romantic mode.

February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can't begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it's so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it's so great.

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Some days I'm in a good mood and sometimes I'm bad.

I love music. I love creating, so I just get inspired with whatever mood I'm in. Whatever the story dictates, that's where my mind goes.

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

I enjoy creating lamps because lighting really changes my mood.

When I have to be in public, I can't be in a bad mood.

I am a method actor because I listen to a sad song when I have to act in a sad scene. That way, I try to get into the mood.

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

When I'm happy and in a good mood, I just search for other things that maybe connect to me on another level. I talk to my friends and see how they're feeling - see what's going on in their lives.