Top 100 Quotes About Happy Endings
#1. 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
#2. I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
Joe Eszterhas
#5. 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
#6. Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
Adam Pally
#7. All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.
Janet Malcolm
#8. You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
Larry Gelbart
#9. There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.
Martha Grimes
#10. I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.
Steven Jackson
#12. Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#13. And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
Stephen King
#14. Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get.
Chip Rossetti
#15. A remarkable fact of nature is that problems almost always get solved just when they are meant to. And those who can help solve the problems almost always show up at the right time.
Cynthia Rylant
#16. I don't believe that 17-year-olds get happy endings. They get beginnings.
Rainbow Rowell
#17. One of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.
Kristin Hunter
#18. '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
#19. This isn't a book. This isn't a paranormal fantasy or whatever the hell it is you read. There is no set plot or clear idea of where any of this is going. The enemies aren't obvious. There are no guaranteed happy endings.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#20. But maybe, that's the point. That there are no guarentees. There are no happy endings. But you show up anyway. You don't give up. You NEVER give up. Maybe that's what it takes to be a HERO. -Billy Kaplan
Allan Heinberg
#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. 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
#23. There goes Mig with her happy endings again," Chris said. But I don't care. I like happy endings. And I asked Chris why something should be truer just because it's unhappy. He couldn't answer.
Diana Wynne Jones
#24. Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
Ariana Franklin
#25. ...As for having him only while on earth... that IS how it stands now, but don't give up. He's a really good person, Jane. And he loves you... You've got to have a little faith -- And keep dreaming. Some happy endings just take a little longer and are harder to come by.
Michele Paige Holmes
#26. It's a poem, of our love, that doesn't rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.
Khadija Rupa
#27. True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
Frances Hardinge
#28. Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real,
Unless you find the fine line ... and erase it
C. Elizabeth
#29. I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the 'Happy Endings' folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally's just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I'd be great to jump on and do some comedy.
James Wolk
#30. The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#31. The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending
the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
Orson Scott Card
#32. While we can't always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we've been dealt.
Adam Silvera
#33. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things
Erin Morgenstern
#34. There's a lady in Midtown who does amazing therapeutic massage."
"I don't need a massage."
"I can see if she gives happy endings."
"I might need a massage.
Tiffany Reisz
#35. An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me ... And you know, people like happy endings.
Elinor Lipman
#36. I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.
Matthew Quick
#37. If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no happy endings. All accomplishments are washed away by death or by the next moment.
Frederick Lenz
#38. Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after
that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.
Robert Altman
#39. Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between
Kristen Bell
#40. There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.
Lauren Oliver
#41. Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.
Steven Weber
#42. So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
Margaret Atwood
#43. She'd spent enough time in this life to know that not everything will go your way. She'd read enough books to know that they weren't all happy endings.
Sarah Addison Allen
#44. I think when life gets heavy, people look for an escape. "The Love Boat" is an escape. We have happy endings. You don't see many of those around. I think it gave people a vicarious adventure.
Gavin MacLeod
#45. You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore?"
"Your question is irrelevant," Imogen said. "This isn't the end.
Scott Westerfeld
#46. How can someone struggle for a happy ending ... If they don't believe in one.
Bharat Budhani
#47. If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.
Jessica Brody
#48. Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones, but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked.
Salman Rushdie
#50. I couldn't fathom it myself, but I guessed that happy endings came in all shapes and sizes.
Ingrid Law
#51. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
Darren Shan
#52. If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough.
Cooper Edens
#54. I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.
Jacqueline Wilson
#55. Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.
Liane Moriarty
#56. People come to films drowned in reality, leaving behind heart failures, cancer, failed marriages, bad jobs, mean bosses, and future sickness. What they need is not happy endings, but proper endings.
Ray Bradbury
#57. 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
#58. Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.
Terri Windling
#59. 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
#60. People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
Margaret Atwood
#61. After all the love was lost, Claire wanted him to die, but he was happy that she still wants something from him.
Anonymous
#62. 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
#63. Some say romance novels are pure fantasy because of that happy ending, but the truth is that romantic love is everyday magic and happy endings happen every minute. Falling in love is one of the core elements of the human condition; it touches us all.
Sylvia Day
#65. Kids were an antidote for darkness, Tony thought. The way they ran and laughed, you had to believe in happy endings.
Kaje Harper
#67. Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.
Ray Bradbury
#68. The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
Tammy Wynette
#69. She could dream of happy endings. For him, if not for her.
Anne Stuart
#70. We all imagine happy endings to such books, pick out the page, the paragraph, in which we would step in and pluck the innocents to safety.
Ada Palmer
#71. Ya gotta believe in something, doll. It might as well be happy endings.
Patricia Burroughs
#72. There are no happy endings for such as us, Chella. No redemption. Not with our sins. Any joy is borrowed - laughter shared on the road, and left behind." He turned to Kai. "I have killed children, Kai Summerson. In such company you will too.
Mark Lawrence
#73. I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
Joe Wright
#74. Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.
Isabel Greenberg
#76. I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.
Rufus Wainwright
#77. Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love
Rumi
#79. Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked
Margaret Atwood
#80. After many trials the God and his love end happily - tho' not all remember this conclusion - which is less memorable than the moment when everything was lost. Happy endings are all alike; disasters may be unique.
John Crowley
#81. Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
Charles Haughey
#82. You want happy endings, read cookbooks.
Dean Young
#83. 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
#84. How do you see the world? Happy endings come not through events but through a shift in perception.
Jane Tara
#85. I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things - what are they called? - hamsters: all die like flies. So there's no point avoiding it.
Raymond Briggs
#87. I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.
Bonnie Tyler
#88. Surely she knows
like I do
that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.
Jodi Picoult
#89. That sounds nice, but it's not reality. Happy endings are a lie we tell our children to believe in - a cruel lie. In the end, most of us just fall into bed alone, relieved to have survived the day. I am just beginning to figure out what I need to be happy.
Ruth Cardello
#90. There are no endings for any of us, happy or
otherwise, until we die. A fairy tale only ends
happily because that's the point where the
storyteller stops telling the story.
Lilly Gayle
#91. That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
Alice Munro
#92. But looking back on the next day, I can tell you that happy endings are possible, even in situations as fraught with complications as this one was.
James Howe
#94. I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
George Clooney
#95. Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy," Wren said. "It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.
Rainbow Rowell
#97. You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.
Esther Hicks
#98. If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.
Stephenie Meyer
#99. She was kind of crying, too, because she liked happy endings. Then she realized it wasn't an ending at all. As she gazed around at all these people she loved, she knew that everybody here was just getting started.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#100. happy endings start with new beginnings.
Luanne Rice
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