Top 100 Quotes About Happy Ending
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Once I checked my email, I would get lost in a book so I could feel the main character's pain instead of mine, laugh at her missteps rather than lament my own, and cheer for the happy ending that seemed to elude me.
Meredith Schorr
#4. 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
#5. The thing about obsessing about a happy ending is that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way, You forget to appreciate the people alongside you.
Beth Pattillo
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending
Anonymous
#9. That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth.
Stephen Graham Jones
#10. A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.
Chita Rivera
#11. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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.
T.J. Klune
#16. The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there's a happy ending.
Felicia Day
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.
Evelyn Keyes
#23. 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
#24. Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
Sarah Dessen
#25. The great thing about television is that most things get resolved by the end of the episode. So I think a lot of people watch TV to see something of their real lives reflected on the screen, but also they're hoping for that happy ending.
Kali Hawk
#26. 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
#27. [A happy ending is] a distribution at the last of prizes, pensions, husbands, wives babies, millions, appended paragraphs, and cheerful remarks.
Henry James
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. ...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...
John Geddes
#31. A flower's happy ending is in the sun, but its real story took place in the dark.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. The people who want regeneration to be permanent are fanatics for the happy ending, dissatisfied with themselves and with anyone else, unrealistic men and women, anti-Christs, who were entertained by the miracles but learned nothing from Calvary.
John O'Hara
#35. After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Lionel Trilling
#36. The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.
Timothy Keller
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I'm not looking for a happy ending. I'm looking for a new beginning.
Ian Segal
#40. 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
#41. I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.
Larry Gelbart
#42. I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending
Jodi Picoult
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
Eric Drooker
#46. 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
#47. There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
Sam Kinison
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. Stop being an adrenaline junkie who is waiting for the happy ending instead of seeing the happy being.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#52. 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
#53. Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind.
Stefan Emunds
#54. 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
#55. If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles
#56. I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.
Anna Quindlen
#57. 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
#58. - the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.
Andrew Kaufman
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Life is a movie, and you're the star. Give it a happy ending.
Joan Rivers
#62. 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
#63. You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.
Paul Feig
#64. Shy, I can't be fixed. We won't ride off into the sunset. There will be no happy ending.
Nina G. Jones
#65. Surely I must be a princess in an enchanted sleep. Any day now, this dream-no, nightmare would end, and I'd get my prince and happy ending.
Richelle Mead
#68. You don't need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.
Krystal McLean
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. There never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.
Peter S. Beagle
#72. It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but
it was the only one we had.
Megan Hart
#73. They got their happy ending. That's the only reason why I can make myself walk away, make myself say goodbye to my girls, even though it kills me that I'm not the reason behind their smiles. And I will never be.
Mia Asher
#74. 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
#75. This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.
Orson Scott Card
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.
Ada Calhoun
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. I love stories with a happy ending, Inspector Me said.
Derek Landy
#82. You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#83. Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways
Jane Green
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.
Alexander The Great
#88. 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
#89. We are still on our journey, still suffering and still laughing together. But I feel like the tide has turned, and I think we will have our happy ending yet. Even if it doesn't look like what we were expecting.
Meg Keene
#90. I've come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending.
Jaejoong
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. It's never to late to have a happy ending' Harvey Hoyland
Milly Johnson
#95. Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.
Jeanette Winterson
#96. 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
#98. How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I'd grow old with that we won't have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?
Nicole Ireland
#99. The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Henry James
#100. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last.
Peter S. Beagle
