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Quotes About Moods

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
~ Wendell Phillips
Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnights; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the march in Athalie; her motions, the ebb and flow of the sea; her voice, the viola.
~ Thomas Hardy
Thus, neither having the clue to the other's secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other's character and moods without attempting to pry into each other's history.
~ Thomas Hardy
The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.
~ Thomas Hardy
There is a certain degree and tone of light which tends to disturb the equilibrium of the senses, and to promote dangerously the tenderer moods; added to movement, it drives the emotions to rankness, the reason becoming sleepy and unperceiving in inverse proportion; and this light fell now upon these two from the disc of the moon. All the dancing girls felt the symptoms, but Eustacia most of all.
~ Thomas Hardy
Angel began to comfort and reassure her, thinking to himself, truly enough, what a creature of moods she was, and how careful he would have to be of her when she depended for her happiness entirely on him.
~ Thomas Hardy
I am a woman whose moods are influenced by the weather, my outlook rising and falling with the barometer.
~ Kathy Reichs
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
~ C. S. Lewis
A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.
~ C.G. Jung
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods
~ C.S. Lewis
Reflecting on the meeting, Maxine now appreciates how tenuous and fleeting the conditions that enable psychological safety can be. It depends on the behavior of leaders, one's peers, their moods, their sense of self-worth, wounds from their pasts … Given all this, it's amazing that psychological safety can be created at all, she thinks.
~ Gene Kim
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
~ Genevieve Gorder
Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand.
~ George Eliot
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.
~ Nora Roberts
My moods are like a roller coaster. It's hard for me to just feel one way all the time.
~ Tierra Whack
Certain rhythms just have certain moods.
~ Dennis Brown
Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.
~ Chuck Inglish
'Lucky Day' is what I would call the Shaggy roller-coaster ride. It takes you to different moods. I listen to music in moods.
~ Shaggy
I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I get very overexcited. But I do get very low, too... I don't know whether it's inherited or learned.
~ Caroline Quentin