Not A Happy Ending Quotes

#1. If this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning.

Julia Hoban

#2. 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.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

Jodi Picoult

#4. We all want to have a happy ending. A lot of times in life, sometimes you do and sometimes it feels like you don't. But you could argue if it is not a happy ending yet, maybe you are just in the middle of your story.

Camron Wright

#5. It was not a happy ending but a happy middle
at last, after so many fraught beginnings.

Laini Taylor

#6. The day was cloudy. I passed through towns with familiar last names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war.

Tim O'Brien

#7. It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but
it was the only one we had.

Megan Hart

#8. Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway.
Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

E. Lockhart

#9. I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.

Melissa Joan Hart

#10. I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

Tim O'Brien

#11. A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.

Jenny Slate

#12. You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

Paul Feig

#13. Unlike a fairy tale, the parable provides no happy ending. Instead, it leaves us face to face with one of life's hardest spiritual choices: to trust or not to trust in God's all-forgiving love.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#14. No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. Fairy tale doesn't always have a happy ending. But still, it's a fairy tale.
So does first love. It might not be happy, but it doesn't have always to be sad. It's just love.

Dian Purnomo

#16. The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. - Bobby Goodspeed

James Howe

#17. 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

#18. Even though this story could end a thousand different ways, and even though chances were, it might not have a happy ending, it didn't matter. Because I already knew how I was gonna tell this story.

Kody Keplinger

#19. For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Jill McCorkle

#20. I'm not looking for a happy ending. I'm looking for a new beginning.

Ian Segal

#21. You can hope all you want for a happy ending, but sometimes, like it or not, the guy writing your story is working on a tragedy; you may not even be the main character.

Shalom Auslander

#22. A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make the book happy. I decided they made it. They made it to the past. I decided the past was our world, and the future was their world. It was parallel worlds.

Lois Lowry

#23. A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Chita Rivera

#24. I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending

Anonymous

#25. Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn't determine whether that book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn't really matter if they end up happy together.

Colleen Hoover

#26. Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true.

Amit Abraham

#27. Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

Ellen Datlow

#28. This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.

Orson Scott Card

#29. Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

Kelly Link

#30. All the way to heaven is heaven.' It is not just about the happy ending, but making every step along the way matter. It is a good way to live a life, do you think?

Becky Doughty

#31. I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Andy Stanley

#32. I never use the word 'sex' in my novels - that is not what romance is about. It's about love and emotion. All my stories were different but they all had a happy ending - the perfect finish to any romance.

Jean S. MacLeod

#33. waiting is our destiny. as creatures who cannot by themselves bring about what they hope for; we wait in the darkness for a flame we cannot light. we wait in fear for a happy ending that we cannot write. we wait for a 'not yet' that feels like a 'not ever.

Lewis B. Smedes

#34. Last, but not least
in fact, this is most important
you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.

Satyajit Ray

#35. 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

#36. 'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.

Henry Ian Cusick

#37. My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless ... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

Marya Hornbacher

#38. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group. It doesn't always turn out.

Cher

#39. Not every story has a happy ending. Some only hold a happy beginning.

Rachel Higginson

#40. Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

Linda Gordon

#41. I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

David Blatt

#42. 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

Hayao Miyazaki

#43. 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.

Jonathan Tropper

#44. ..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.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#45. Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim.

Chanda Hahn

#46. 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?

Joe Ducie

#47. 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.

Juliet Marillier

#48. We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.

Eric Drooker

#49. I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry."
"Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

Chris D'Lacey

#50. Watching others drink, I've never really got the impression I was missing much.' I added

'You're not' she smiled and winked, 'stick with sex addiction - it has a happy ending.

Jake Remington

#51. The Beginning of a Happy Ending is not as bad as it sounds.

Elena Martina

#52. If you're having a not so good day, all you have to do is read or watch something with an happy ending.

Karlene Pitters

#53. Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.

Peter S. Beagle

#54. I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

Dorothy Parker

#55. Zach kissed her forehead. I'm not going to let anything like that happen to you again. You're going to live out your days as the cosseted and cherished wife of a chief deputy U.S. Marshal.

Pamela Clare

#56. Not everybody gets a happy ending, however deserved it may be. Life had been doing its damnedest to teach me that, starting with my first saltwater breath, the day my mother died at sea.
But that didn't mean we were giving up.

Sarah Ockler

#57. Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.

Ernst Junger

#58. I'm not guaranteed a happy ending just because I make it to the last page.

Katherine Reay

#59. 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

#60. And just as I thought that my happy ending was beginning, it had to end so soon even though it hadn't started yet.

Kristine Cuevas

#61. Just because something is over doesn't mean it wasn't incredibly beautiful. Because another lesson I've learned is not all stories have a happy ending and you have to learn how to deal with that.

Taylor Swift

#62. Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

Susanna Kaysen

#63. 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.

Terry Pratchett

#64. While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.

Alethea Kontis

#65. 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

#66. The journey is the mystery ... the destination the answer. If you don't have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.

Shannon L. Alder

#67. I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending ... But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.

Elisabeth Elliot

#68. What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.

Penny Jordan

#69. Real life is not a love story. It's a series of tough decisions, disappointments and compromise. It ain't glamorous or fluffy, and it doesn't always have a happy ending. We live. And we learn. And sometimes that's the best we can hope for.

Joanne Phillips