Top 100 Quotes About A Happy Ending
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. ..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
#4. 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.
Huston Smith
#5. 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
#6. 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.
Shahla Khan
#7. 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.
Jodi Picoult
#8. It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as the death exists.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. 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.
Robin Hobb
#10. 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.
Augusten Burroughs
#11. 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
#12. 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.
Isabel Allende
#13. 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.
Michele L. Rivera
#14. '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.
Joe Wright
#15. Let's rewrite what has been written for us. Let's promise a happy ending this time.
Cherry Seniel
#16. 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.
Jennifer Echols
#17. 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
#18. 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.
John Pielmeier
#19. Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim.
Chanda Hahn
#20. For the first time, he felt like part of my beginning instead of a happy ending.
Jamie McGuire
#21. 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
#22. 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.
Hanna Rosin
#23. 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.
Ezra Miller
#24. 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
#25. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.
Jo Walton
#26. If this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning.
Julia Hoban
#27. 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.
Bill Maher
#28. 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
#29. Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
Ariana Franklin
#30. Romance means believing you are worthy of a happy ending.
Sarah Wendell
#31. The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
Frances Hardinge
#35. Unfortunately, a lot of people in the world will never be get a happy ending and it's okay if they give up, it's okay if they don't persevere, but it's also okay if they push on just for a few moments of happiness before they reach their sad ending.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#36. I never did understand
why the tree was still happy
at the end. The little boy
used her until she was
nothing but a stump.
She couldn't even run away.
But the ending was always the same:
And the tree was happy.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#37. People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love, and falling in love, but they know now that ... they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin.
Gregory David Roberts
#38. 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
#39. She is a story with no ending, happy or sad. She can never belong to anything mortal enough to want her. Most
Peter S. Beagle
#40. We've got an entire lifetime ahead of us to do things like get married. But sometimes things in people's lives don't happen in chronological order like they should. Especially in our lives. Our chronological order got mixed up a long time ago.
Colleen Hoover
#41. Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.
Maggie Young
#42. You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.
Nancy Thayer
#43. If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story - Orson Welles
Orson Welles
#44. I want a good love story and a happy ending. Period. I don't want to deal with real life shit in a book. I'm reading to escape.
R.L. Griffin
#45. 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
#46. There's a metaphor in that somewhere - like all of life is about ending up somewhere you didn't expect, and learning to just be happy with it.
Lauren Oliver
#47. In my fantasy world everyone has a happy ending. No one is told who they should be, how they should feel, who they are allowed to love, what they should believe and how they should look. Sadly, everyone in my world can't seem to get along with one another because everyone is so darn different.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. Relationships don't come with a warranty and being in love is no guarantee of a happy ending.
Jonathan Tropper
#49. It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.
Nina LaCour
#50. You could be
the leaf that never falls from the tree
you could be
the sun that never leaves the sky
this might be
the happy ending without the ending
this might be
a reason to try
David Levithan
#51. It didn't fit her ideas of who was bad, and who was good, and what was a happy ending, and what wasn't.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#52. How can someone struggle for a happy ending ... If they don't believe in one.
Bharat Budhani
#53. We are traveling down a path with no happy ending, and it's too late to turn around.
Mandy Hubbard
#54. The general idiocy of mankind is such that they can be swayed by words, and however mortifying, for the present you have to accept the fact as you accept it in the cinema that a film to be a success must have a happy ending.
W. Somerset Maugham
#55. The Beginning of a Happy Ending is not as bad as it sounds.
Elena Martina
#57. 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
#58. What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
William Dean Howells
#59. 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
#60. Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending.
George Sheehan
#61. I think you need to know that your hope hasn't been in vain. That there will be a happy ending. That when the show is over, you will hear applause.
Susan May Warren
#62. 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
#63. We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about.
Chuck Palahniuk
#64. Don't worry," she says. "They're happy tears. There's nothing I love more than a good happy ending.
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#65. Life is a strange mixture of all of these genres, she mused, and it doesn't have nearly as neat and happy an ending as you often get in books.
Liz Braswell
#66. I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
Tim O'Brien
#67. 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
#69. Sometimes life just doesn't allow for a totally happy ending.
Sophie McKenzie
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. I'm not guaranteed a happy ending just because I make it to the last page.
Katherine Reay
#75. Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.
Brett Somers
#76. I had questioned God. I had thought that I was so special, I could hold God to account. And why? I had never been promised, ever, that life would be safe and have a happy ending for myself and those I knew and loved, if only I had faith in Him. A
James Patterson
#78. Nobody can go back and start all over again. But anyone can start today and make a new beginning. Instead of another closure, make a new future.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#79. I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending.
Marian Keyes
#80. 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
#81. You make me want to do things I've never done before. Never wanted to do before,' she whispered.
C.C. MacKenzie
#82. I just want the feeling that I'm safe, the feeling that things can work out and that there'll be a happy ending someday.
Nadia Simonenko
#83. Death, to me, has always just been a word. A mention of a king I never knew, a villain whose demise led to a happy ending. Never have I seen it; never have I felt it; never have I held it in my hands.
Never has it been forever
Jodi Picoult
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. And they all died happily ever after.
A very happy ending, the littlest one said.
Ali Smith
#87. 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
#88. I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.
Yani Tseng
#89. The fairy tale of heaven, the promise that whatever shit happens, your story gets a happy ending. The Bible, boiled down: Once upon a time I helped some poor suckers out and someday, maybe, if you're good, I'll help you too,
John Joseph Adams
#90. A happy ending was promised, and a happy ending was delivered.
Colleen Houck
#91. 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
#93. there is no story where two girls
get a happy ending. she tells me fine, we'll write it ourselves
Topaz Winters
#94. You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.
Esther Hicks
#95. It's possible to have a happy ending, even if the ending isn't what you imagined.
Natalie Lloyd
#96. 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
#97. I don't know if I'll get a happy ending. But why worry about a happy ending? Why worry about any ending at all? I don't know where I'm going next, and for the first time in forever, I don't want to. I want my life to be picaresque. Fantastical. I want to say yes and.
Samantha Ellis
#99. Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.
Teresa Mummert
#100. I know most people have given up on a happy ending. But I can't. I have to hope.
Jenelle Schmidt
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