No Such Thing Happy Ending Quotes

#1. Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News. - Author: Bill Maher

#2. 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. - Author: Rosamund Lupton

#3. I still want to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a happy ending for every story. It all depends on how thoroughly you look for it and how badly you need it. - Author: John Pielmeier

#4. Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim. - Author: Chanda Hahn

#5. For the first time, he felt like part of my beginning instead of a happy ending. - Author: Jamie McGuire

#6. Perfect endings... they don't exist, 'Phie. Only in stories, where nothing ever really changes. Here, right now, isn't a story. There is no happy ending, because it's not the end. Do you understand? - Author: Joe Ducie

#7. Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy. - Author: Hanna Rosin

#8. I've had many, you know, happy ending sleepovers'in my early youth - my period of exploration. I think that's essential. Anyone who hasn't had a gay moment is probably trying to avoid some confrontation with a reality in their life. - Author: Ezra Miller

#9. About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn't matter if that's true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you're listening you can believe, for a bit, that you're good too. Worth a happy ending. - Author: Juliet Marillier

#10. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing. - Author: Jo Walton

#11. Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren't guy and girl. We weren't damaged and terminal. We were just now. - Author: Elizabeth Langston

#12. If this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning. - Author: Julia Hoban

#13. When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end. - Author: Jean De La Bruyere

#14. 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. - Author: Gary D. Schmidt

#15. Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof. - Author: Ariana Franklin

#16. There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present. - Author: Melissa De La Cruz

#17. This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#18. And if there is one last thing I would have you know before we reach these final pages, it's that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we want it to be so, sometimes there is no such a thing as happy ending.
This is my ending. This is how i burn. - Author: T.J. Klune

#19. I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose. - Author: John Green

#20. Roan looked at Paris and wondered where they would go from here and if there would be any light at the end of the tunnel before it collapsed on top of them. Too bad there was really no such thing as a happy ending. - Author: Andrea Speed

#21. Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There's no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending. - Author: Jeanette Winterson

#22. There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'. - Author: Eoin Colfer

#23. You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as happy ending. There is so much to lose. - Author: John Green

#24. People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending. - Author: Augusten Burroughs

#25. To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures - Author: Hayao Miyazaki

#26. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it. - Author: Jonathan Tropper

#27. ..love is as complex an emotion as exists. There are many reasons why love does not prosper.
.. the waters are perilous, and you would do well to know that, because unlike your novels, not every story has a happy ending. - Author: Mary Lydon Simonsen

#28. The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead. - Author: Lynda Barry

#29. At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. - Author: Huston Smith

#30. 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. - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#31. When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till date and runs all our lives with such ease. He is the BEST WRITER of all. - Author: Shahla Khan

#32. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#33. It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as the death exists. - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster. - Author: Robin Hobb

#35. Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have 'they lived happily ever after - Author: Santosh Avvannavar

#36. Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable. - Author: Neetesh Dixit

#37. Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air. It is the place I come back to, no matter where I've been headed. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#38. I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction. - Author: Isabel Allende

#39. There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy. - Author: Martha Grimes

#40. The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. - Author: Jill Robinson

#41. It has been said by many that a true love story has no happy ending simply because the truest of loves never ends. It is immortal. This is the kind of love that lives forever in your heart as a feeling you will always feel, a place you can always return to. - Author: Michele L. Rivera

#42. Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get. - Author: Chip Rossetti

#43. If you're fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film is happy. - Author: Lindsay Lohan

#44. 'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life. - Author: Joe Wright

#45. Let's rewrite what has been written for us. Let's promise a happy ending this time. - Author: Cherry Seniel

#46. You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back. - Author: Jennifer Echols