Family Quote by Chip Heath

“Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—”

— Christina Stead

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

— Susan Cheever

“Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unhappy families are all unhappy in different ways.…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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…

— Peter Orner

“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

— Haruki Murakami

“Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina by observing: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Business is the opposite.…

— Peter Thiel

“There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a…

— Haruki Murakami

“While it's true that, as Tolstoy observed, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and everyone on planet Earth, vale of tears…

— Elif Batuman

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages that moved him: "He was right in saying that the only…

— Jon Krakauer

“Happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own…

— Herman Koch