Miriam Toews Quotes

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

I was briefly bitter.

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

Most of life is sad.

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.

Emotions run high when you have a bad day; you can't hide it.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

Once you learn the idea of what a good guy is, you want your dad to be a good guy, and when your dad lets you down and doesn't act like a good guy, it's disappointing and can make you angry as you see it happen, which is beautiful and very believable.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to play in with her little stuffed animals. There was pain and crushing disillusionment and betrayal.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.