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

“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

““Is he then an unhappy man?”
Poirot said:
“So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.”
The nun said softly:
“Ah, a rich man…””

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.”

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”

“I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.”

“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.”

“I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.”

“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.”