A Quote by Rebecca West

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Rebecca West

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Astonishment Being Being Unhappy Find Goes Goes On Happy Marriage Marriage Over Unhappy Unhappy Marriage

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Rebecca West
Irish - Author
December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983

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Debbie Reynolds

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Simon Soloveychik

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Viktor E. Frankl

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Jim Boeheim

I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

Jessica Valenti

Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.