Unhappy Family Quotes

• All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  Anna Karenina pt. 1, ch. 1 (1875 - 1877) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude) See Susan Cheever 1

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• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Family, Home, Skins

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.185, e-artnow

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

  Gloria Steinem

  Unhappy, Mysterious

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Lying, Selfish

  Pope John Paul II (1984). “John Paul II and the Laity”, Le Jacq Pub

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Family, Silence, Unhappy

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

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  A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Birthday, Family

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• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Family, Gratitude, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.233, Penguin

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• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Peace, Buddhist

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• Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Unhappy, Way, Happy Family

  "Anna Karenina". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1875 - 1877; 1878.

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• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Food

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

  Pat Conroy

  Unhappy, Happy Family, Born

  "Pat Conroy obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2016.

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• 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

  Believe, Unhappy, Would Be

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Air, People

  "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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• He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

  Confucius

  Love, Life, Family

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• I think that maybe happy families don't need stories the way unhappy families need stories. Maybe they're too busy living that they don't actually step back and talk about life like the Anton Chekhov quote. I prefer Anton Chekhov to Lev Tolstoy, and the reason is because of what he leaves out. Sometimes I think Tolstoy had a theory that he was proving and he proved it. Chekhov is more ambiguous.

  Peter Orner

  Thinking, Unhappy, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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• Families without songs are unhappy families.

  Pat Conroy

  Song, Singing, Unhappy

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Great Santini: A Novel”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

  Sherman Alexie

  Hate, Book, Boys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I agree with the Lev Tolstoy quote completely, but I also feel like there's more to it. What is a happy family and an unhappy family? We're probably both of those things at the same time.

  Peter Orner

  Unhappy, Happy Family, Agree

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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• I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way, also really socially progressive teachings of the Baha'i faith, the equality of men and women, the elimination of racial prejudice, the equality of science and religion, so it was a big cauldron of big ideas in my household. And we were weird and unhappy family, but nonetheless that was a really positive thing that came out of it.

  Rainn Wilson

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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