Quotes: Mood (10)

Mood 27 "…his mind empty, waiting for what events would bring." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Mood 80 "He had the kind of merriment a man sometimes knows when events have ended in utter disaster." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Mood 158 "The awareness and excitement he [Croft] had felt after he killed the prisoner had faded on the march to an empty sullen indifference to everything about him." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Mood 160 "He [Red] felt a savage irritation at a combination of things too numerous and subtle for him to determine." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Mood 389 Red: "Listen boy, forget about it, you ain’t gonna get out of the Army, ain’t any of us gonna get out." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Quotes: Mood (9)

Mood 425 "At last, she rejoiced, I’ve come to a fairer attitude toward the town…can love it now…perhaps, rather proud of herself for having acquired so much tolerance." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. "Tolerance."

Mood 477 "…the place had so much attitude, all tension and edge…." DeLillo, Underworld.

Mood 701 "…she could not feel the ordinary contentment of things the way she used to." DeLillo, Underworld.

Mood 711 "There were a thousand sameshit nights…nights that always ended down, disappointed some way…." DeLillo, Underworld.

Mood 15 "After a time Red had that feeling of sad compassion in which one seems to understand everything, all that men want and fail to get." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Quotes: Mood (8)

Mood 384 "But she knew that she still had no plan in life, save always to go along the same streets, past the same people, to the same shops." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Boring routine.

Mood 393 "She felt oozing through the walls the spirit of small houses and righteous people." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Small town. Small thinking.

Mood 393 "There they were, the furnace sounds, unalterable, eternal: removing ashes, shoveling coal." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. "Furnace sounds."

Mood 418 "She felt that she was no longer analyzing and controlling forces, but swept on by them." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Not in control.

Mood 424 "I can laugh now and be serene…." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Serenity.

Quotes: Mood (7)

Mood 242 "Carol herself would gladly have followed Mr. Ole Jenson and migrated even to another Main Street; flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. From one tedium to a new tedium.

Mood 256 "…vision of a tragic futility." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Futility

Mood 313 "Could this drabness of life keep up forever, then?" Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Drabness.

Mood 335 "She hated him for his composure." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Mood 356 "Everything crushes in on me so, all the gaping dull people, and I look for a way out." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Gaping dull people.

Quotes: Mood. (6)

Mood 226 "That afternoon Beret was in childbed…the grim struggle marked Per Hansa for life; he had fought his way through many a hard fight, but they had all been as nothing compared with this…had ridden the frail keel of a capsized boat on the Lofoten seas, had seen the huge, combing waves snatch away his comrades one by one, and had rejoiced in the thought that the end would soon come for him also; but things of that sort had been mere child’s play…this was the uttermost darkness…neither beginning nor end—only an awful void in which he groped alone." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Black hole.

Mood 323 "He watched his wife covering the windows at night, and felt both sad and angry; but when he saw how everything was growing on the farm—meadows and fields, cattle and youngsters—then he was filled with an exultant joy that made him momentarily forget his wife’s condition." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Achievement.

Mood 334 "His utter impotence in the face of this tragedy threw him into an uncontrollable fury; he lost all restraint over himself." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Out of control.

Mood 8 "Every cell of her body was alive...." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Surging life.

Mood 183 "If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice: I must be on the side of the devil." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. Angels and Devils.

Quotes: Mood (5)

Mood p. 41 "Now it had taken possession of him again—that indomitable, conquering mood which seemed to give him the right of way wherever he went, whatever he did." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Confidence.

Mood 45 "As Per Hansa lay there dreaming of the future it seemed to him that hidden springs of energy, hitherto unsuspected even by himself, were welling up in his heart…felt as if his strength were inexhaustible." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Superman.

Mood 48 "…he had such a zest for everything and thought it all such fun that he could hardly bear to waste a moment in stupid sleep." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Raring to go.

Mood 197 "The days wore on…one exactly like the other." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth.

Mood 208 "A day came when Per Hansa flared in a rage that frightened even himself; he struck out blindly and smashed whatever happened to lie within his reach." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Irrational rage.

Quotes: Mood (4)

Mood 249 "Marianne…prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening’s engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing till the last moment, where it was to take her." Austen, Sense and Sensibility. Resignation.


Mood 307 "But a day spent in sitting shivering over the fire with a book in her hand, which she was unable to read, or lying, weary and languid, on a sofa…." Austen, Sense and Sensibility. In the dumps.


Mood 8 "If we never arrived anywhere it did not matter…did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be would be." Cather, My Ántonia. Resignation.


Mood 216 "I was moody and restless that winter and tired of the people I saw every day." Cather, My Ántonia. Claustrophobia?


Mood 28 "…suddenly it struck her that here something was about to go wrong…for several days she had sensed this same feeling; she could not seem to tear herself loose from the grip of it…." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. Foreboding.