Mood Quotes - Page 37

• It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

  Alan Bennett

  May, Used, Happened

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• The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wise, Humor, Deep Thought

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-

  Veronica Roth

  Nice, Kissing, Relax

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.49, Harper Collins

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• He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact that he accused them of things I'm sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially not Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Character, Done, Facts

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime." -Kahlan Amnell

  Terry Goodkind

  Mother, Giving, Bad Mood

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• Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Names, People

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• I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word.

  Shannon Hale

  Book, Doe, Prejudice

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• He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.

  Tammara Webber

  Crazy, Done, Slow Motion

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• Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

  David Markson

  Fundamentals, Existence, Stills

  David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr

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• Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Good Mood, Made

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.135, A&C Black

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• You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. "Why? I'm all those things and more." I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Angel, Vampire, Wicked

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• Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fun, Stupid, Moving

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 15, 2013

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• In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires." "Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.

  Alan Lightman

  Morning, Thinking, Two

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• I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sky

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• But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Laughter, Pain, Passion

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• Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Hands, Trying

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale: The Conclusion to The New York Times Bestselling Hush, Hush Saga”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Sadness, Creativity, Errors

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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• I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

  Kurt Cobain

  Mad

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• Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Strong, Stress

  1898 The War of the Worlds, bk.1, ch.7.

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• Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love Is, Atmosphere, Theme

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• [S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Long, Way, Easy

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.24, HarperCollins

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• I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Military, Dark, Soldier

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• How about we talk about your love life instead?" "Why? Are you in the mood to be depressed?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love Life

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• And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more important to capture moments like this, keen shifts in mood, sudden veering of direction - than to lose it in slumber.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friday, Night, Important

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.153, Anchor

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