Quotes about Mood

Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation.

Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, 'I'm a conservative, but I'm not in a bad mood about it.' I've always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

I don't even glance at the herbal teas, I go straight for the real, vile coffee. Jitter in a cup. It cheers me up to know I'll soon be so tense.

Everyone has to decide for himself how to get the better of his own mood

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

Hail divinest Melancholy.

Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one?

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!