Top 65 After Ending Quotes
#1. I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.
Emma Thompson
#2. What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
Scott Westerfeld
#3. I fell silent after that. I didn't want to talk about such things anymore, at least today. My chest already hurt and I was trying to keep my mind calm. I didn't want to think of a future so bleak and dark. I had plans for my future and they didn't involve the world ending or society collapsing.
J.M. Northup
#4. And lastly, the reason I was definitely ending this relationship sooner than later, was her new and weird-ass sex fetish: She liked to crawl around the room on all fours and purr like a kitten before and after sex. She even "meowed" when she came.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#5. Every story has an ending. You can't stop after one chapter just because you don't know how it ends
J.C. Reed
#6. Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.
Philippa Perry
#8. If you chase after everything at once, you stand a good chance of ending up empty-handed.
Tadahiko Nagao
#9. If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.
Chuck Palahniuk
#10. Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
Rachel Cusk
#11. After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Lionel Trilling
#12. One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
Alfred Hitchcock
#13. If a happy ending is what you're after, stop the story where it makes you smile, or cry for laughter. In life, it's the rare sweetness to have tears of joy, or painless endings. People feel. It's what they know, and it's why i write.
Mark T. Barnes
#14. All right, said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
Lewis Carroll
#15. After an exhilarating whitewater ride through America's love-hate relationship with its rivers, Daniel McCool leaves us inspired and hopeful for a happy ending.
Michael Brune
#16. A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth's future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn't turning out that way, was it?
A.B. Shepherd
#18. Ortiz is now synonymous with walk-off homers. After all, he hit a total of nine game-ending blasts from 2002-07. And that was just in the regular season. It was his blasts in the 2004 postseason that cemented his legacy in Boston.
Tucker Elliot
#19. To me, marriage was an ending, not a beginning. A stone on my chest. A giving-up, a decision to walk away from an interesting life for one just like everyone else's. Much more "ever after" than "happily.
Kristin Newman
#20. It was not a happy ending but a happy middle
at last, after so many fraught beginnings.
Laini Taylor
#21. Writing YA fantasy books is like sneaking out after dark, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in the most exciting world... ever!
Carolyn Hockley
#22. Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.
Brendan I. Koerner
#23. Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends ... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
Jane Yolen
#24. Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.
Sonya Hartnett
#25. We have reduced the kingdom of God to private piety, the victory of the cross to comfort for the conscience, and Easter itself to a happy, escapist ending after a sad, dark tale. Piety, conscience, and ultimate happiness are important, but not nearly as important as Jesus himself.
N. T. Wright
#26. All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
Jeet Thayil
#27. It didn't and doesn't turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It's only a matter of how long you can live with it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#28. After he had lain still there about an hour he heard a low and seemingly very distant sound, but singularly grand and impressive, unlike anything he had ever heard, gradually swelling and increasing as if it would have a universal and memorable ending, a sullen rush and roar.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything has ended and nothing else can ever begin.
Robin Hobb
#30. I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.
Ruba Nadda
#31. People often ask why I write romance. It's because I believe in heroes and heroines who, after fighting their way through often-formidable obstacles, are rewarded with a happy ending. When the story's over, their future is just beginning and I really like that idea.
Debra Cowan
#32. The movement of time is guaranteed by the birth of generation after generation, a never-ending succession that fills the gods with fear.
Mikhail Bakhtin
#33. I'm afraid I've already found my Ever After, Hort," said Sophie.
"What? With who?" Hort asked, aghast.
"On my own," she said, her voice sure and clear. "I'm happy on my own."
And for the first time, she knew it was true.
Soman Chainani
#34. Yet after withdrawing from three wars in two generations - each begun with idealistic aspirations and widespread public support but ending in national trauma - America struggles to define the relationship between its power (still vast) and its principles.
Henry Kissinger
#35. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.
Rainbow Rowell
#36. Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have 'they lived happily ever after
Santosh Avvannavar
#37. I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.
Rosamund Lupton
#38. There's no reason to jump into an ending just because you jumped into a beginning." After
Leta Blake
#39. Scars remind us we can live life without fear because no matter what happens, we'll heal. We'll get better.
Lindsey Fairleigh
#40. Ya've got no respect, woman," Beck retorted. After the door closed behind him she realized what he'd said.
"Woman?" He wasn't calling her girl any longer.
If that wasn't a sign the world was ending, what other proof did she need?
Jana Oliver
#41. There is something intoxicating about ending a life, about wiping bad people off the face of the earth. But it's also a dark and deadly pull. After all, who am I to decide who lives or dies?
Paula Stokes
#42. A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker.
"We talked about this before."
"A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know."
"Suppose you can't see it?"
"That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.
Gary D. Schmidt
#43. You're after perfection,'Matt said.
'Is that so awful?'
'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.
Tim Relf
#44. At the ending of the day when I'm weary after a waterfall of tears have all been cried - and I'm feeling like the skies will always be dreary - nothing's there to fill the emptiness inside.
Ellen M. DuBois
#45. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.
Mira Grant
#46. A happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It's where the real story begins.
Sarah Addison Allen
#47. I, Kotoko Aihara ... Now Kotoko Irie ... have finally become Irie-kun's wife. And though this may seem like a happy ending, it is actually more of a happy beginning.
Kaoru Tada
#48. True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending.
K. Knight
#49. In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
Noah Feldman
#50. A comedy isn't about being funny ... a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.
Gary D. Schmidt
#51. The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn't the end of the story it's the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.
Lisa Kleypas
#52. After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin.
Arnon Goldfinger
#53. Fate doesn't guarantee us a happy ending. We're not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn't some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.
Claudia Gray
#54. The fable of us had been rewritten. With a spin that had exposed the truth. Instead of the happily never after we'd been dealt or with the happily ever after that was a lie, we were retelling the ending. Boone and Clara - happily even after. It was a great story. The greatest one I'd ever heard.
Nicole Williams
#55. And they all died happily ever after.
A very happy ending, the littlest one said.
Ali Smith
#56. There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.
Bill McKibben
#57. After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz.
Nick Nolan
#58. The days passed, one after another, measured out in an unbroken, never-ending rhythm.Seemingly infinite, but gone in the blink of an eye - like waves crashing on the shore, or the seasons passing.
Or the beating of a heart.
Jessi Kirby
#59. Looking after the baby is like taking some sort of terrifying, never-ending practical exam. All she does is respond to what the baby is doing. Feed baby. Change baby. Wash baby. Keep baby alive. Prepare for when baby wakes again.
Liane Moriarty
#60. If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.
Melissa De La Cruz
#61. I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
Chuck Palahniuk
#62. He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.
Jess C. Scott
#63. While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.
Arthur Levitt Jr
#64. And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no lesson to be learnt.
It was like one person's cry of pain, echoing out on and on and on trough the generations, even after that person was long long dead.
Chris Beckett
#65. immersed in a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts, coming willy-nilly one after another in rapid succession.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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