Miriam Toews Quotes

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.

I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.

But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.