Quotes About Mood

#1. The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!

Jonathan Cainer

#2. Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression
this is the Mystery of its evolution.

Arnold Mindell

#3. Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and the sights and smells of earth-for grass and meat and beer and tea and the human voice-awoke in him.

C.S. Lewis

#4. a woman of her understanding should already presume that marrying the wealthy would come with sacrifices. Jerry Roth told him yesterday that he would courier their prenuptial marriage decree and obviously from her mood, she had not received it.

Charles Soto

#5. Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set.

Richie Hawtin

#6. Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy.

Andy Griffith

#7. Call the priest. You're in a better mood when he's around. He doesn't brood like you do." "He invented brooding. He holds the patent on brooding. He gets royalties whenever anyone broods. You just haven't seen him do it yet.

Tiffany Reisz

#8. Social media has a way of changing your mood. I can see a picture of my ex, and it ruins my day.

Kim Stolz

#9. There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.

Jack Kirby

#10. I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood ... people don't think about the importance of it.

Michael Jackson

#11. Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

William Cowper

#12. I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'

Adam Ferrara

#13. I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason so to judge him.

James D. Watson

#14. Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.

John Ratey

#15. The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.

Cormac McCarthy

#16. I call this the Relativistic Weekend Effect. We live in the present, but our happiness relies heavily on the future. Our mood is as much expectation as experience.

Hugh Howey

#17. And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice ...

Gunter Grass

#18. I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood

Natalie Portman

#19. When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Doc Watson

#20. In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay
Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure,
The heart luxuriates with indifferent things,
Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
And on the vacant air.

William Wordsworth

#21. Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words ... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

Octavio Paz

#22. Somewhere within this realm of imagination there is a mood, a feeling of the wish fulfilled which, if appropriated, means success to you.

Neville Goddard

#23. To convey one's mood
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic

John Cooper Clarke

#24. There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.

John Betjeman

#25. Gertrude's remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word "Woe," which she handed out gaily declaring, "Woe is me.

Ross Wetzsteon

#26. And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

Glen Hansard

#27. I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

Erica Jong

#28. The dogsman said, 'Tread lightly. Your master's in a vicious mood.' Well, that was order restored.

C.S. Pacat

#29. The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

Sigrid Undset

#30. I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

Norman Jewison

#31. Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.

John Gallagher Jr.

#32. I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

Terry Richardson

#33. How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

Sarah Addison Allen

#34. On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.

Gaspar Noe

#35. Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

Jan Struther

#36. While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.

Chuck Palahniuk

#37. Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.

Liz Miller

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

Jennette McCurdy

#39. Turner rolls his eyes and stomps towards the door. I don't know if I've ever really seen him just walk. When he's in a good mood, he swaggers. When he's pissed, he slams his feet against the floor like it owes him money.

C.M. Stunich

#40. It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

Muriel Spark

#41. Clouds suit my mood just fine.

Marie Lu

#42. Let's play it safe. I'm not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#43. I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Adam Savage

#44. So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to himself, but that very night he began to brood and he continued to brood till that sickly looking voluptuary of a ten-shilling note took on all the radiance and charm of a virgin of seventeen.

Frank O'Connor

#45. Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.

Orianthi

#46. This house has endured three of my Dad's four wives, and so over the last few decades it's been a home-size mood ring, changing to the styles and temperaments of its female inhabitants.

Matthew Norman

#47. Nay, father.
Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party.
- Thor, God of Thunder

Matt Fraction

#48. Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.

R. Kelly

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

Elizabeth Berg

#50. The idea's an instant mood-lifter. I'm going to take up more space in a room than my father.

Jandy Nelson

#51. The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction - - it builds on itself.

Albert Goldman

#52. I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action.

Bertrand Russell

#53. I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

Karl Pilkington

#54. The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

Helen Fisher

#55. The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

William A. Henry III

#56. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.

Walter Pater

#57. I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

Dick Dale

#58. Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy
as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you're forced to bend

Munia Khan

#59. Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

Teju Cole

#60. And though many women might enjoy the offering of such compliments, I did not want him to love me based on temporal things like a smile or voice or presence, things that could vanish through mood or an unexpected cloud. He must love me for the sake of love alone ...

Nancy Moser

#61. There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

Lin Yutang

#62. There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

Elisabeth Elliot

#63. Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?

Kay Redfield Jamison

#64. I am a chameleon when it comes the way I dress. I am constantly changing it up, and I really can't commit to one thing because dressing for the day or for an event is really a mood thing. I like variety, and I don't mean just designers, I mean mixing the high-end garments and the cheaper clothing.

Darby Stanchfield

#65. I'm gonna be so mad when my mood elevators wear off.

Karen Walker

#66. I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.

Jean Reno

#67. Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

William Butler Yeats

#68. I felt the mood shift. And, for no reason at all other than that he didn't expect it, I climbed fully clothed into the bath and kissed him as he laughed and spluttered. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall.

Jojo Moyes

#69. I respond to mood. I hear some phrase, or pick up a rhythm.

Miller Williams

#70. I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music.

Joshua Bell

#71. That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#72. When two friends, like you and me, are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.

Plato

#73. Oh, yes, Sir," she breathed, and with that one word - Sir - the mood shifted from friends or even lovers to something deeper, something better. Slipping

Claire Thompson

#74. There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at times. She just jumped in these scenes that go from anger to hysteria to crying to laughing and back to anger. I just marveled.

Susan Sarandon

#75. The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't see the music first. There always needs to be a mood, a feeling, a story, even if it is abstract. There's got to be a narrative to guide things before they're even created.

Alison Goldfrapp

#76. I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

Alexander McQueen

#77. I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.

Kristen Bell

#78. One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

Tom Robbins

#79. Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

Paul Theroux

#80. I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

Shaun White

#81. She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#82. I need mood music. I gotta get myself ready to kick butt.
Lula - High Five

Janet Evanovich

#83. I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

Peter Ham

#84. Right. Got it. And he was glad it was Z. Undoubtedly the guy was well aware of his fucked-up mood, but unlike some of the others - *cough*Rhage*cough* - he would never pry.

J.R. Ward

#85. I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

Larry Rivers

#86. I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

Henry Ward Beecher

#87. The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

Charlotte Bronte

#88. The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

Ogden Nash

#89. I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

Rachel Bilson

#90. The surest way to shift feelings is to physically shift your body. Go get a glass of water, leave the room and walk around outside - anything to physically break the mood.

Andrew Mellen

#91. By walking a long time in an environment, landscapes begin to influence on your mood, as( landscapes) change, your feelings do.

Jacques Lecoq

#92. There was something about being a child of divorce ... I'd always felt somehow responsible for everyone's mood. If I was cute and cheerful enough, I believed, everyone would be happy. If they weren't, clearly I wasn't trying hard enough.

Kristan Higgins

#93. Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#94. Your thought determines your mood and to a great extent, your mood determines your thought, though sometimes it is hard to determine someone's thought by the mood of the person! When the mind changes, something changes! When the mind changes, the face changes! Change your mind and see!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#95. Depending on her mood, Judy Garland can still be more frightening than any demon or devil you might run across.

Chuck Palahniuk

#96. I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.

Quentin Tarantino

#97. The view from here was lovely, constant, and never the same. Somehow, it was always sympathetic to his mood.

Mal Peet

#98. No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel ... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.

Matt Smith

#99. Mood can be as important as sense.

Anne Sexton

#100. Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be a gift. You can wait for it, you can be receptive to it, you can remain in a surrendered mood, waiting, patient, but you cannot demand, and you cannot force.

Rajneesh