Quotes About Unhappy Families

#1. There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

Daphne Merkin

#2. It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.

Angela Carter

#3. I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

Robert Gottlieb

#5. Unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. Everything comes to you when you ready. If it did not come to you then know that you not yet ready, build yourself to it.
Ana Maria Frith, from: Limitless: Change Your Life

Ana M Frith

#7. As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

Shreya Ghoshal

#8. Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Oliver Goldsmith

#9. He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#10. Tolstoy had written something about happy families being all alike and unhappy ones each unhappy in its own way.

Alan Bradley

#11. I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

Carl Lewis

#12. Netball is great for people with a fear of commitment.

Shane Rodgers

#13. Today is the sum of all the choices we made in our yesterdays. Choose wisely, for a secure, happy, and meaningful tomorrow.

Charles F. Glassman

#14. Life is a merciless bully for children born into circumstances of grinding poverty, to unhappy families broken apart by crime, drugs, alcohol. It brutalises the affections, cramps the intellect, destroys aspiration.

Victoria Clayton

#15. Families without songs are unhappy families.

Pat Conroy

#16. Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be
silent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

Kedar Joshi

#17. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI

J.D. Robb

#18. All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the Holiday Season, happy families can abruptly become unhappy and unhappy families can, to their great alarm, be happy

Marisha Pessl

#19. As for unhappy families, star-crossed lovers, and exiled heroes, they are simply universal.

Elif Batuman

#20. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Robert Frost

#21. Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

#22. Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Gloria Steinem

#23. Happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way.

Herman Koch

#24. In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

Nhat Hanh