Nina Simone Quotes

From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.

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

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

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in, and it can just change my world in seconds.

Be prepared for mood swings.

I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.

I'm calm some days, sweet some days.

I am social at times and sometimes, I want my privacy. There are days when I am at my chirpiest best and there are times when I wish to be left alone.

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.'

I don't love food as much as I used to.

As a person, I am very unpredictable because I am very moody.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed