Eduardo Galeano Quotes

I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.

Be prepared for mood swings.

There are times when I love the world and love everyone, and I want to talk to everyone, and other times when I feel really disillusioned, and like none of this is real, nothing is real around me.

I'm a fairly happy-go-lucky person, generally fairly optimistic, but there were points when I was down.

I'm a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal.

Sometimes you feel fine. You might have a day when you feel awful about what's going to happen in the game. It ebbs and flows. Just embrace it.

In the morning, I'm like the Antonioni movies. I'm little sad. I haven't the courage to start the day. In the evenings, I'm happier, more alive - like the character I play in 'An Almost Perfect Affair.'

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn't always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he'll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.