Allegory Quote by Haruki Murakami

“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

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

— Haruki Murakami

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

— Anonymous

“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.”

— Haruki Murakami

“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble.…

— Rachel Kadish

True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

— Eckhart Tolle

“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

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

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

— Andre Gide

“A person who has many kinds of happiness to choose from usually ends up being miserable”

— Angelos Michalopoulos

“Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.”

— Albert Camus

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

— François Lelord