Happy Ever Quotes

#1. How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

Phil Plait

#2. My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

Nora Roberts

#3. 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

#4. If happy ever after did exist I would still be holding u like this

Adam Lavine

#5. Anyone who says things like "Happy Ever After" as though that end to a love story is a given, is cooking up a right stinking cauldron of shite and trying to serve it as soup.

Amy Lane

#6. Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

Rupert Sanders

#7. Willadee asked him if he thought maybe it should say HAPPY EVER AFTER, but Samuel said no, he thought happiness was like any other miracle. The more you talked about it, the less people believed it was real. It was like Swan said, some things, everybody just had to find out about for themselves.

Jenny Wingfield

#8. He held the door shut with his hand. "I'll stop fighting the second I graduate. I won't drink a single drop again. I'll give you the happy ever after, Pigeon. If you just believe in me, can do it."
"I don't want you to change."
"Then tell me what to do. Tell me and I'll do it," he pleaded.

Jamie McGuire

#9. Once upon a times and happy ever afters could suck it and die.

Ashlan Thomas

#10. You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. 'Into the Woods' follows that template, then asks, 'What happens after Happy Ever After?'

Richard Corliss

#11. But only when it was too late did they realize the price they must pay for escaping their destiny. Every Happy Ever After was tainted. Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

Diane Setterfield

#12. All i care about is giving you the happy ever after you want. In our own messy, complicated way.

Lucy Dillon

#13. Meant to be together? Are you listening to yourself? This isn't one of your fairy tales, Fallon. This is real life, and in the real world you have to bust your ass for the happy ever after!

Colleen Hoover

#14. I've spent my entire existence trying to create this perfect fairytale happy ever after future; bending fate to the way I thought it should be, or living in a past I was never supposed to have. I've never lived in the present, and cherished the moments I'm in.

Christine Zolendz

#15. It was adding up to something I couldn't figure out yet, but I didn't think it would end with a happy ever after for us anymore.

Ashlan Thomas

#16. I do believe in happy-ever-after.

Tamara Ecclestone

#17. I'll give you the happy ever after, Pigeon. If you just believe in me, I can do it.

Jamie McGuire

#18. I pray for her every night ...
Keep praying. God hears you ...
I know. And Pastor says that some people take longer to find their happy- ever-after in Jesus.
That's right. Some people take a little longer.

Karen Kingsbury

#19. Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.

Jane Yolen

#20. Subconsciously, every one believes in angels, fairies, magic and a happy ever after.

Kaye P.

#21. I just wanted to be married and to be happy ever after.

Moira Kelly

#22. What I think I'll do,' Alcide said, 'is I'll do my best to yank Debbie from my roots. And then I'll turn up at your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire." "And then we'll be happy ever after?" I smiled. He nodded.

Charlaine Harris

#23. Here's hoping that your special day
Will be more 'happy ever after'
With all the joys of friendship,
Love, fun and laughter

John Walter Bratton

#24. You're in a fairy tale right now, Tania, but what happens on the morning after happy ever after?

Allan Frewin Jones

#25. I don't expect to be happy ever after. Just happier.

Mhairi McFarlane

#26. sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in

Laura Lippman

#27. My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw

Charles Bukowski

#28. If I had a suitcase, I would love it. I would shrink-wrap it when I traveled. I would put stickers from every place I'd ever been on it. And when I saw it on the carousel I would grab it with both hands and I'd be so happy to have it because then my adventures would really begin.

Nicola Yoon

#29. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?

Alicia Kobishop

#30. I'm convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy.

Douglas Adams

#31. If I could go back I wouldn't change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn't have ever tired to do anything different. I would have never become happy.

Taylor Swift

#32. Then why haven't you killed yourself? (Astrid)
Why should I? The only enjoyment I have in my life is knowing I piss off everyone around me. If I were dead, it would make them all happy. God forbid I should ever do that. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is
a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

Gregory David Roberts

#34. How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

W. H. Auden

#35. Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy - only free.

Nelson DeMille

#36. We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced ... but we're taking it on.

Hank Green

#37. They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.

Margaret Mitchell

#38. The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two or three players and is happy to give an assist to a teammate, it makes him more dangerous than ever before.

Michael Laudrup

#39. I have been ranting and raving about this ever since the idea of the Cloud Ark was announced. So far all I get in return, from the powers that be, are vague answers and hand-wavy happy talk.

Neal Stephenson

#40. Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
And so I put this on my life
Nobody or nothing will ever come between us
And I promise I'll give my life

Jay-Z

#41. If ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it's your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself - that will be the man who's not after your soul.

Ayn Rand

#42. Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me.
In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked me that question.

Amy Engel

#43. I guess [coming out publicly] seems like a weight off my shoulders. I've been playing a lot better than I've ever played before. I think I'm just enjoying myself and I'm happy.

Megan Rapinoe

#44. Don't change yourself for anyone, you may struggle a lot to do so...
When you are completely changed, people wants the old one to get back again, which would be a difficult task ever for you...

Giridhar Alwar

#45. I think we deserve a happily-ever-after."
"If anyone ever did, it's us.

Jodi Picoult

#46. The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadows of apparently irrevocable disaster.

H.G.Wells

#47. I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

Katharine Cornell

#48. I don't think I've ever changed. I am only one person, it's just me. I'm confident and I'm quite happy with who I am, but it's my life and I'll be what I want.

Eric Burdon

#49. I didn't know if I believed in 'happily ever after' anymore. I mean, I didn't know what would happen tomorrow, let alone for forever and ever after. But I did know that I was happy, right there, right then, with him.
And that was all I needed to know.

Stephanie Kate Strohm

#50. If you ever fall in love with some one, God give you happiness with her! I won't wish anything for her, for she will be happy with you. I know, I am a woman myself, so you must believe me when I tell you so.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#51. They had stood against all adversity to be together, and now they would forge their own path to love. She would be Kai's wife. She would be the Commonwealth's empress. And she had every intention of being blissfully happy for ever, ever after.

Marissa Meyer

#52. This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

LaToya Jackson

#53. So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land

Richard Llewellyn

#54. Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Suzanne Collins

#55. Do you ever think it's the dead that have the happy ending? Just they don't have to worry about surviving."
"But they're dead," he says
"Yeah. That means they don't have to remember anything."
Elias shakes his head. "That means they can't ever love."
I snort. "So they don't know loss.

Carrie Ryan

#56. Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

Eugene Kennedy

#57. Go away princess. Leave your outlaw alone. You won't change him ... go away, Anna, far away, and don't ever come back. The fairy tale doesn't have a happy ending.

Antonia Michaelis

#58. Your testing my patience here, duchess," he growled. "If you have any doubt about my ability to fuck the ever-loving sarcasm right out of you, I'll be more than happy to clear it up.

Tessa Bailey

#59. I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been.

Cynthia Nixon

#60. Eople don't know how to be happy; they wouldn't know what to do with their lives if they woke up one morning and discovered they had everything they ever dreamt of.

Alice Walsh

#61. We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it - passion - is one of those things that you have an endless amount of - like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.

Laura Miller

#62. Everything is going to be okay, Princess Eloise," he whispered against her ear. "I promise."
But it wouldn't. She knew better than to ever trust a man who promised happy endings in the middle of a kidnapping.

Avery Flynn

#63. They were gone, she hoped, to be happy, however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for herself, she was left with as many sensations of comfort, as were, perhaps, ever likely to be hers.

Jane Austen

#64. Nothing I had drunk had ever tasted like that before: rich and warm and perfectly happy in my mouth. I remembered that milk long after I had forgotten everything else.

Neil Gaiman

#65. The first time I'd ever felt happy-and I mean ever-was when I'd been lying in my bed, staring out my window, watching the stars shine harmoniosly with one another.

Jessica Sorensen

#66. Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

Connie Willis

#67. A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

Robert Southey

#68. I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

Larry David

#69. This part of Kant's view is, I believe, a profound truth. We can be morally responsible in several other ways, or senses, but no one could ever be responsible, I believe, in any way that could make them deserve to suffer. Nor, I believe, does anyone deserve to be less happy.

Derek Parfit

#70. You don't ever know how happy you are until you remember how sad you once were and vice versa. Nothing is anything until I decide to hold nothing next to something, and declare that I see a difference.

Andrea Seigel

#71. I had never seen so many stars shimmering in the sky ever before. It pleased me.

Devanshi Gupta

#72. I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.

Eva Braun

#73. Why had I ever cared about happy endings? Happy beginnings were so much better.

Kristin Walker

#74. Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

John Connolly

#75. And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't last forever. I didn't deserve a happily ever after, and there weren't many other cards to play when that was the truth.

Alysha Speer

#76. Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

Anna Kendrick

#77. I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in life - like one hundred percent blissful - is when we're little kids."
"Because there's less to worry about?"
"Because we're too stupid to know how worried we should be.

Brian K. Vaughan

#78. Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Ellen Hopkins

#79. I am happy doing standup so I don't ever want to stop doing it. But I wouldn't mind venturing off and doing other things that are creative.

Brian Regan

#80. I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.

Judith McNaught

#81. I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Kevin Hart

#82. Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

Sean William Scott

#83. My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in ... the little town in which I grew up. ... Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world ... of lava rock and sagebrush desert. ... I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

Richard McKenna

#84. All I would ever ask of a wife," he murmured, "is that she would bear me some affection. That she might be happy to see me at the end of the day.

Lisa Kleypas

#85. Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

Robert Anthony

#86. If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

Tim Burton

#87. Does the ending even matter? Shouldn't the middle be the happy part? It's the biggest chunk of our life, and yet no one ever asks if two people had a happy middle. They care too much about the ending.

R.S. Grey

#88. And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

Stephen King

#89. No sin has ever made any person happy. Sin simply cannot bring happiness, but it can deliver pleasure, and
when we confuse pleasure with happiness, we are wide open to the seduction of the enemy.

R.C. Sproul

#90. Ever since I was young, I have wanted to help others live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives.

Rachele Brooke Smith

#91. Did you ever feel happy in church?" "Naw. I didn't want to. Nobody but poor folks get happy in church." "But you are poor, Bigger."
Again Bigger's eyes lit with a bitter and feverish pride. "I ain't that poor.

Richard Wright

#92. And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

Jon Scieszka

#93. I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#94. When I touch you, I'm touching you because I want to make you happy. When I kiss you, I'm kissing you because you have the most incredible mouth I've ever seen and you know I can't not kiss it. And when I make love to you - I'm doing exactly that. I'm making love to you because I'm in love with you.

Colleen Hoover

#95. I'd never, ever do anything that would hurt you. That I promise. I'm so happy that we are together right now, I can't even tell you.

L.M. Trio

#96. Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Paul Klee

#97. When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

Dave Grohl

#98. There never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

Peter S. Beagle

#99. Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

Alexander Downer

#100. You were the the exception to the rule. You were the one person who made me rethink everything I ever believed in and I'm so happy that you did.

Beth Rinyu