Quotes About Endings Of Stories

#1. Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie.

Wallace Stegner

#2. I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

David Massengill

#3. Love in the real world doesn't usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don't always get fairy-tale endings. People split up and move on. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you can't love someone else. - Georgina to Brandy

Richelle Mead

#4. Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

Angelina Jolie

#5. I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

Anna Quindlen

#6. I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

Ted Naifeh

#7. All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.

Chris Matthews

#8. People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

Anthony Edwards

#9. Nobody said it had to be a story with an ending all neatly tied up like some ridiculous fairy tale. This story's true, and true stories don't have endings, because things just keep going.

Kate Milford

#10. There is no ending to this story because, as I've realised, stories don't have endings, only beginnings.

Shirley Marr

#11. Real love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

#12. Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in some way, it helps another soldier make sense of things. And although the stories may not be perfect, sometimes just sharing is enough to make a difference.

Michael Anthony

#13. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.

Erin Morgenstern

#14. When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

Aidan Chambers

#15. An ending is an artificial device; we like endings, they are satisfying, convenient, and a point has been made. But time does not end, and stories march in step with time.

Penelope Lively

#16. The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.

Ernest Bramah

#17. Read all kinds of stories to your child. Don't be afraid if they don't all have happy endings. Being exposed to peaks and valleys of life encourages empathy, resilience, and feelings of meaningfulness and gratitude for our own lives.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#18. That's why love stories don't have endings! They don't have endings because love doesn't end.

Richard Bach

#19. True love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

#20. It's okay how some stories leave off without an ending. Life doesn't always deliver the one you would expect.

Adam Silvera

#21. My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

Erin Morgenstern

#23. It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it is hard to come to the end of things, but I think when it is done right, it is a very satisfying way to appreciate something.

Jon Hamm

#24. Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

Kristin Hannah

#25. Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

Paul Auster

#26. Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.

Karen Tei Yamashita

#27. Not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn't mean they're not worth the read.

Cassia Leo

#28. Life has no happy endings, actually, no endings at all, just an ongoing series of beginnings. A story - whether it's happy or sad, whether it makes sense or not, what its meaning is - depends entirely on where you start it and where you end it.

Judith Ryan Hendricks

#29. And in stories, endings matter.

Atul Gawande

#30. Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

Samuel R. Delany

#31. You know why love stories have happy endings?" I shake my head.
"Because they end too early," she continues. "They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.

Hank Moody

#32. And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings.

Avijeet Das

#33. Stories don't always have happy endings.
This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Patrick Ness

#34. The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.

James Plath

#35. 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

#36. Why would a football fan let a few flubbed minutes at the end of the game ruin three hours of bliss? Because a football game is a story. And in stories, endings matter.

Atul Gawande

#37. Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#38. people who read short stories love endings that make them want to gargle with Drano or nosedive off a skyscraper. But

Benjamin Percy

#39. Son," his father said, leaning forward. "Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. His

Patrick Ness

#40. If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.

Julian Assange

#41. I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.

Geraldine Brooks

#42. Stories are about endings,' he'd said. 'They don't mean anything unless they come to an end.

Paul Cornell

#43. Were they all just stories whose endings had already been written, the dates of their deaths pinned to the page with periods?

Traci Chee

#44. Endings are the most important part of stories. They grow inevitably from the stories themselves.

Dennis Covington

#45. True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

Frances Hardinge

#46. Stories have endings; that's why we tell them, for reassurance that there is meaning in our lives. But like a diagnosis, a story can become a prison, a straight road mapped out by the people who went before. Stories are not the truth.

Sarah Moss

#47. But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back - all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot's wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings?

Stephen King

#48. Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

Carol Berg

#49. True love stories have no endings... author unknown

K.K. Gould

#50. True enjoy stories never ever have endings.

Richard Bach

#51. 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

#52. You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Lauren Oliver

#53. There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin.

Jacqueline Carey

#54. Despite their exhaustion and worries, Miner and Ennek made love that night, tracing fingers and tongues over one another's marks and scars. Their bodies were like books, Ennek thought, and their stories could be read inch by inch. He hoped fervently for happy endings.

Kim Fielding

#55. Some stories don't have endings," she says. "In some stories, there aren't even answers.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#56. A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

Alan Cohen

#57. My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

Glen Duncan

#58. The best stories ever written are the these were inspired by it endings.

Sameh Elsayed

#59. All those stories need different endings - which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.

Laura Fraser

#60. One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments - not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.

Molly Antopol

#61. There are only three possible endings - aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

Jeanette Winterson

#62. But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.

Sarah Addison Allen

#63. Books, even made-up stories, can't all have happy endings because they reflect the real world, and the real world isn't always happy.

Ada Palmer

#64. There are lots of love stories here," she says. "They either end happily, or everyone dies." She laughs, but it sound more like a sob. "What else is there, right?

Lauren DeStefano

#65. I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Katherine Applegate

#66. Stories don't end," he says. "They just turn into new beginnings." (pg. 123)

Lindsay Eagar

#67. Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.

Vince Gilligan

#68. Surely she knows
like I do
that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.

Jodi Picoult

#69. All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.

Laura Lippman

#70. Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.

Isabel Greenberg