Family Quote by Susan Cheever

“It’s like Tolstoy’s quote: “All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” All”

— Chip Heath

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

— Christina Stead

“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

“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

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…

— Peter Orner

“Tolstoy meant that, in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects: sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion,…

— Jared Diamond

“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

“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