
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
“In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.”
Nam in omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum est genus infortunii fuisse felicem.
Prose IV, line 2
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
“It is a kind of happiness to know how unhappy we must be.”
C’est une espèce de bonheur, de connaître jusqu’à quel point on doit être malheureux.
Maxim 8 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
“A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story”
“The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
The Last Unicorn (1968)
Context: The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.