“I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
― Mary W. Shelley
tags: consolation, mood, solitude
“If you're in bad mood, take a deep breath.
If you're in good mood, give thanks to God.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Clouds suit my mood just fine.”
― Marie Lu, Champion
“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: bliss, bring-back, chaotic, childhood, citizen-kane, cookies, daily, delightful, details, fields, floating, frantic, insignificant, joy, leitmotif, life, madeleine, marcel-proust, memory-lane, mind, mood, paper-boats, retreat, rosebuds, spirit, strawberry, the-beatles, trivial, value, vital, walk-down, waves, worries, youth
“Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
― Shannon L. Alder
tags: abuse, accepting, answers, autoimmune-disease, bullied, compassion, crying, cyberbullying, defamation, empathy, emptyness, faith, feeling-deeply, god, god-s-love, god-s-plan, gossip, grace, hacking, healing, hope, humiliation, ignored, illness, insight, introspection, job, journey, life, living, lonely, lonliness, loss-of-dignity, loss-of-faith, loss-of-family, loss-of-health, loss-of-time, lost, lost-children, mental-abuse, mercy, misdiagnosis, misunderstanding, mood, pain, physical-abuse, rejection, self-evaluation, sexual-abuse, shame, silence, sorrow, spiritual-abuse, struggles, tears, to-live, trials, tsloama, wrong-choices, years
“When a mood of "not belonging" is haunting our mind and tolling the bell for relief or happiness, life may be like a scar on the canvas of our dreams. Now is the time to wake up and slip back to the basics, in the vein of crawling back to mum's lap. ("The grass was greener over there")”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: basics, dreams, green-grass, happiness, haunting, mood, mum-s-lap, not-belonging, scar, toll-the-bell
“The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
“When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
tags: concerts, emotion, experience, mood, museums, story, storyteller, storytelling
“If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
tags: j-d-salinger, mood, work
“Two kisses in one kiss was all it took, a comfort, a warmth, perhaps temporary, perhaps false, but reassuring nonetheless, and mine, and theirs, ours, all three of us giggling, insane giggles and laughter with still more kisses on the way, and I remember a brief instant then, out of the blue, when I suddenly glimpsed my own father, a rare but oddly peaceful recollection, as if he actually approved of my play in the way he himself had always laughed and played, great updrafts of light, burning off distant plateaus of bistre & sage, throwing him up like an angel, high above the red earth, deep into the sparkling blank, the tender sky that never once let him down, preserving his attachment to youth, propriety and kindness, his plane almost, but never quite, outracing his whoops of joy, trailing him in his sudden turn to the wind, followed then by a near vertical climb up to the angles of the sun, and I was barely eight and still with him and yes, that
was the thought that flickered madly through me, a brief instant of communion, possessing me with warmth and ageless ease, causing me to smile again and relax as if memory alone could lift the heart like the wind lifts a wing, and so I renewed my kisses with even greater enthusiasm, caressing and in turn devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there were too many kisses to count or remember, and the memory of love proved not love at all and needed a replacement, which our bodies found, and then the giggles subsided, and the laughter dimmed, and darkness enfolded all of us and we gave away our childhood for nothing and we died and condoms littered the floor and Christina threw up in the sink and Amber chuckled a little and kissed me a little more, but in a way that told me it was time to leave.”
― Mark Z Danielewski, House of Leaves
“being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.”
― John Green
tags: friends, john-green, let-it-snow, mood
“Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people.
By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
“Mood has to be controlled.
Otherwise, it's your master.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When you're in bad mood,
you find jerk on anywhere.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
tags: bad, feeling, mood, subjectivity
“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
tags: achievement, aims, ambition, attitude, confidence, determination, doubts, dreams, drive, endurance, energies, energy, failure, focus, goals, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, life, mood, motivation, motivational, music, negative, notes, optimism, perspective, positive, quotes, song, stumbling-blocks, success, vibes, vibrations
“No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.”
― Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
“I am in no mood to write
candle or radio,
nor am I willing to write table,
pen and paper;
I want to write but a poem.”
― Suman Pokhrel
“The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
“Moods are not to be confused with emotions. Moods will dispose you to having an emotion. Certain moods you're more likely to get angry than others, as we all know, but emotion is not the same as mood. Emotions, I think, always have to do with agitated forms of desire. Whenever you're in an emotional state, you have some sort of agitated desire. So, emotions are fairly special -- I am not always in some sort of emotional state or other, but I think I am always in some mood or other.”
― John Rogers Searle
“We all know the experience of sitting in bed feeling exhilarated one day and lackluster the very next. The issue is not whether we need to find a more fulfilling bed.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
tags: apathy, bed, fulfillment, lackluster, mood
“so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story.”
― Turcois Ominek
tags: attitude, life-lessons, mood, personality, truth
“I suppose one must be serious sometimes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the environment, the economy, luck, or the moods of others. Compositions change. Positions change. Dispositions change. Experiences change. Opportunities and attitudes change. You will change.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
tags: attitude, attitudes, change, change-your-life, changes, composition, compositions, constant-change, constant-flux, control, disposition, experiences, factors-of-life, life, life-attitude, life-quotes, living, mood, moods, opportunities, opportunity, position, seasons, transform, transformations, uncontrollable
“There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.”
― J. Donald Adams
“An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.”
― Tony Hillerman
“But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.”
― Josephine Humphreys, The Fireman's Fair
