“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“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”
“I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need and long for is different. It is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and lust after death. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.”
“It is a kind of happiness to know just how unhappy we could be.”