Unfortunate Mood

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.
~ Charles Darwin, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 9: 1861

I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
~ Bill Watterson

The best fighter is never angry.
~ Lao Tzu

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
~ Nelson Mandela

I am not in a bad mood. Everyone is just.. annoying.
~ Wiz Khalifa

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~ Aristotle
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~ Carrie Fisher

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
~ Mark Twain

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
~ Will Rogers

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
~ Jimmy Carter

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
~ Charles Bukowski

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
~ Haruki Murakami

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.
~ Jimmy Carter

In 1944 a 16-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio won an essay contest on the theme ‘what to do with Hitler after the war’ by submitting a single sentence. “Put him in black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.

Until 1974, it was actually illegal to appear in public in Chicago if you were ugly.

In the 1990s the U.S. Air Force did research on creating a gay bomb, a non lethal bomb that contained intense pheromones that would make the enemy's forces attracted to each other.
~ Scott Matthews

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.
~ David Bowie