Bad Endings Quotes

#1. All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.

Chris Matthews

#2. Build your life on your dreams; because dreams never have bad endings.

M.F. Moonzajer

#3. The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.

Ruth Glick

#4. I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it.

Julia Ormond

#5. Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work
hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss
loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Jean Vanier

#6. No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you'll have to pass and move on.

Alexandra Elle

#7. Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

Kim Harrison

#8. Saying Good Bye is bad but don't forget. it is a new beginning of something and new beginnings are always blissful

Anamika Mishra

#9. You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Slay the dragon - though I really think dragons get a bad rap - kiss the princess, or the frog, defeat the bad witch.

Nora Roberts

#10. At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.

Terry Pratchett

#11. There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

Jodi Picoult

#12. People who put avocados in the fridge are basically saying, 'I want to eventually experience something less amazing.

Gregor Collins

#13. Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#14. When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

Margaret Atwood

#15. The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#16. No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

Lucas Black

#17. I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

Matthew Quick

#18. Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending.

C. JoyBell C.

#19. In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Michael Shermer

#20. People come to films drowned in reality, leaving behind heart failures, cancer, failed marriages, bad jobs, mean bosses, and future sickness. What they need is not happy endings, but proper endings.

Ray Bradbury

#21. Why publish what is worthless? Perhaps the worthy is also worthless. Besides, what is obviously worthless has always fascinated me. I have a real affection for things which are incomplete or badly finished, for things awkwardly try to take flight only to fall clumsily to the ground.

Clarice Lispector

#22. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

#23. Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

Steven Weber

#24. Not so bad this ending because one is getting used to endings: life like Morse, a series of dots and dashes, never forming a paragraph.

Graham Greene

#25. For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#26. Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Pseudonymous Bosch