Quotes About Unhappy Families

#1. 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

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

Jeanette Winterson

#3. 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

#4. Families without songs are unhappy families.

Pat Conroy

#5. 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

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

Elif Batuman

#7. 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

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

Jeanette Winterson

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

Nhat Hanh

#10. 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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Robert Frost

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

J.D. Robb

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Shane Rodgers

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

Carl Lewis

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

Alan Bradley

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Shreya Ghoshal

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Daphne Merkin