Top 100 Quotes About A Happy Ending
#1. 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.
Andrea Speed
#2. I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.
Ruth Glick
#3. A comedy isn't about being funny ... a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.
Gary D. Schmidt
#4. I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending
Anonymous
#5. That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth.
Stephen Graham Jones
#6. A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.
Chita Rivera
#7. I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
#9. It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But you ought to read the rest, just the same.'
'Why?'
'Because it has a happy ending.
Tessa Dare
#10. 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
#11. The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there's a happy ending.
Felicia Day
#12. A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth's future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn't turning out that way, was it?
A.B. Shepherd
#13. The story the data tells us is often the one we'd like to hear, and we usually make sure that it has a happy ending.
Nate Silver
#14. When a fairy tale ends a new one starts. Close your eyes and say 'once upon a time' with me; who knows we may catch the beginning of a fairy tale which will bless us with a happy ending."
By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted's Tale
T. Afsin Ilgar
#15. After an exhilarating whitewater ride through America's love-hate relationship with its rivers, Daniel McCool leaves us inspired and hopeful for a happy ending.
Michael Brune
#17. 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
#18. Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
Sarah Dessen
#19. If a happy ending is what you're after, stop the story where it makes you smile, or cry for laughter. In life, it's the rare sweetness to have tears of joy, or painless endings. People feel. It's what they know, and it's why i write.
Mark T. Barnes
#20. [A happy ending is] a distribution at the last of prizes, pensions, husbands, wives babies, millions, appended paragraphs, and cheerful remarks.
Henry James
#21. I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
Ted Demme
#22. Positive means feeling enjoyment, suspense, amusement, and the satisfaction of what psychologists call belief affirmation - stories turning out as readers believe they should. That requires more than just a happy ending. It means affirming readers' beliefs and validating their morals.
Donald Maass
#23. The wall between writing and painting is just good grammar.
Moderation in moderation.
Fun is scary with a happy ending.
Just love. If love doesn't transform that which annoys you, it will be easier to tolerate.
Emily Thornton Calvo
#24. hope and fear are just different aspects of the same submission to history. Sitting and istening to the same story, one can hope for a happy ending while another fears a tragedy. Neither is free.
Anonymous
#25. This was about two sides warring for love.
She and Tedros fighting for Good. Sophie and the School Master fighting for Evil.
Once upon a time, she and her best friend tried to find a happy ending together. Now only one of them could come out alive.
Soman Chainani
#26. 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.
John Green
#27. I'm not looking for a happy ending. I'm looking for a new beginning.
Ian Segal
#28. 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
#29. I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending
Jodi Picoult
#30. 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
#31. Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it veru properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending.
W. Somerset Maugham
#32. Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
Eric Drooker
#33. 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
#34. The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the numbers say it all, and when the numbers don't say what they want them to, they massage them like Koreans on Eighth Avenue until they get a happy ending.
Don Winslow
#35. I know women are supposed to stand on their own and all. I get that. But every once in a while it doesn't hurt to wish for a fairy godmother, a little magic, and a happy ending.
Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
#36. 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
#37. To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#38. If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles
#39. I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.
Anna Quindlen
#40. 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
#41. - the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.
Andrew Kaufman
#42. Well, I just get as close as I can to a happy ending, then I shut the door behind me and move on.
James Goss
#43. 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
#44. Life is a movie, and you're the star. Give it a happy ending.
Joan Rivers
#45. That's the difference between Good and Evil, Clarissa,' the Evil Dean said softly. 'We know that love isn't always enough for a happy ending.
Soman Chainani
#46. You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.
Paul Feig
#47. You don't need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.
Krystal McLean
#48. Why are the only happy endings the ones where the couples get together?" I ask. "Can't they just be friends? Can't that be a happy ending too?
Ted Michael
#49. 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
#50. There never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.
Peter S. Beagle
#51. It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but
it was the only one we had.
Megan Hart
#52. What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
Scott Westerfeld
#53. This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.
Orson Scott Card
#54. He turned and looked her solemnly in the eyes. "Is it too much to ask for a happy ending?" She smiled sadly. "I don't think there are any happy endings left.
Walidah Imarisha
#55. You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey.
Abraham Hicks
#56. Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine to fall for man she can never have.
Jodi Picoult
#57. To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. People often ask why I write romance. It's because I believe in heroes and heroines who, after fighting their way through often-formidable obstacles, are rewarded with a happy ending. When the story's over, their future is just beginning and I really like that idea.
Debra Cowan
#60. Remember, no matter how dark the night, there is always a happy ending. But first, you have to make it through the night.
L.J.Smith
#61. The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.
Jessica Alba
#62. 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
#63. Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.
Linda Gordon
#64. Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending ... you're still enthralled.
(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)
Hilary Mantel
#65. Not every story has a happy ending. Some only hold a happy beginning.
Rachel Higginson
#67. My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
Kate Christensen
#68. It's never to late to have a happy ending' Harvey Hoyland
Milly Johnson
#69. 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
#70. I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.
Maggie Stiefvater
#71. 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
#72. I've come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending.
Jaejoong
#73. 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.
John Green
#74. True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.
Alexander The Great
#75. 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
#76. I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.
Jon Favreau
#77. It breaks my heart a little in the same way that it makes me smile. We're so close to a happy ending.
Kelley York
#78. I love stories with a happy ending, Inspector Me said.
Derek Landy
#79. 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'.
Eoin Colfer
#80. Believing in nothing except the truth of Montgomery, who for all his faults was as steady as the sea, as honest as the sun. My eyes watered with unexpected tears, and I kissed him harder, desperately. It wasn't a happy ending.
Megan Shepherd
#81. A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a story.
Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like may be he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like may be everyone in every home is sure to get a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
#82. Love isn't the expectation that eventually you'll end up in heartache; it's the expectation that you can fully trust another human being with everything and still hope for a happy ending.
Rachel Van Dyken
#83. Why doesn't this story have a happy ending?" Jeffrey asked. "It seems like there should have been hugs and kittens for everyone, at that point. Everyone likes hugs and kittens.
Matthew Storm
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. You won't have to worry about that. I am writing my own story. And in my story, I get a happy ending. No matter what happens, they can't touch me.
Jamie McGuire
#87. Life is like authoring a novel, our choices write the chapters that decide our path, destiny, and if you're blessed, a happy ending.
Brandie Knight
#88. It was not a happy ending but a happy middle
at last, after so many fraught beginnings.
Laini Taylor
#89. It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too.
Sharon Kay Penman
#90. A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.
E. M. Forster
#91. A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.
Leah Stewart
#92. Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.
Hanif Kureishi
#93. Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.
Brendan I. Koerner
#94. I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.
Jamaica Kincaid
#95. Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.
Kristin Cast
#96. It seems to me, that no matter what we do, no matter what choices we make, there isn't a happy ending waiting for us at the end of the long road."
"But that doesn't mean we give up. It doesn't mean we stop fighting.
Danielle L. Jensen
#97. 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
#98. 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.
Jeanette Winterson
#99. What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.
Julia Green
#100. 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
