Top 100 Quotes About Happy Endings
#1. Perhaps I love happy endings because I have been created for one. Heaven.
Afton Rorvik
#2. Real life doesn't have many happy endings. Why shouldn't books make up the difference?
Scott Westerfeld
#3. Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featured in; those tended not to have happy endings.
Deborah Blake
#4. People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.
Sonia Sotomayor
#5. I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.
Tammara Webber
#6. A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.
Chita Rivera
#7. Encounters are after all merely future farewells and he could live with that as long as they both got happy endings. Even if it meant they didn't get it together.
BeccaAmon
#8. I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse!
Carole Gill
#9. That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Garry Trudeau
#11. Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
Ellen Hopkins
#12. 'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
Zachary Knighton
#13. Happy endings are popular. Do you not watch movies?"
"Yeah, but that's movies," Darcy groaned. "Books are above all that!
Scott Westerfeld
#14. Happy endings? The only ending life allows us is death, and that's rarely happy. So, until my happy death, I have to fill my life: fill it with monochrome feels and leading ladies.
Stephen Mosley
#15. A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.
Judith McNaught
#16. Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices. And I just couldn't do it right now. It hurt too much when it fell apart.
Kim Harrison
#17. What I love most about being a writer is the opportunity to "play Goddess" by creating happy endings for people I care about (my characters) and being able to work in my robe!
Laura Abbot
#18. The bourgeoisie loves so-called " positive " types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence , to be a beast and still be happy .
Anton Chekhov
#24. If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
Lemony Snicket
#25. When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.
Margaret Atwood
#26. Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.
Andrew Solomon
#27. There are probably a dozen perfect happy endings you could write. And a thousand bittersweet ones, and at least a million that are gloriously tragic. Alas, you only get to pick one.
Scott Westerfeld
#28. Happy endings aren't just for fairy tales and massage parlors.
Susan Gloss
#29. They tear each other apart. Sometimes there aren't any happy endings or logical explanations and we just have to accept that and move on. Sometimes it really is that simple.
Sarah Ockler
#30. 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
#31. I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love. And now I've stopped believing in happy endings and I've started believing in good days.
Drew Barrymore
#32. Gotta have faith in happy endings. Otherwise, what's the point?
Samanthe Beck
#33. Happy Endings are profitable. People can get misery for free.
Xavier Neal
#35. And if you wonder how serious I am when I talk about filling your head with positive thoughts: I only watch one type of movies. The ones with happy endings.
Petter A. Stordalen
#36. If he had learned anything in life, it was that there were no happy endings. Life simply went on.
Katarina Bivald
#37. Movies, they were the thing. Movies took you away. You could count on popcorn and happy endings.
Stephen King
#38. I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.
Jerry Hall
#39. Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.
Angelina Jolie
#40. I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
Edward Abbey
#41. At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
Jonathan Tropper
#42. There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.
Jodi Picoult
#43. These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
Douglas Sirk
#44. There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.
Peter David
#45. But here's the truth: no matter how much you might wish for it, princes don't come around every day, and happy endings don't grow on trees. Take it from me: the sooner you grow up, the less you'll be disappointed.
Jodi Picoult
#46. He believed in good omens and positive thoughts and happy endings to films, a trouble-free belief, because he had not considered them deeply before choosing to believe; he just simply believed.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#47. You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Slay the dragon - though I really think dragons get a bad rap - kiss the princess, or the frog, defeat the bad witch.
Nora Roberts
#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. When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.
Eliza Coupe
#50. Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.
Neil Gaiman
#51. There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.
Thomm Quackenbush
#52. Real love wasn't about happy endings. It was about the moments spent together, and what you made of them.
Allyson Jeleyne
#53. People are afraid of happy endings because they're too sad and unsure of themselves.They don't believe they deserve one.
Keltie Colleen
#54. Do you like foreign films?"
"With subtitles?"
"Yes."
"I hate those types of films."
"Me too," Cliff says. "Mostly because - "
"No happy endings.
Matthew Quick
#55. Finally, I'd like to thank my readers for staying with me all these years. I especially want to thank the ones who understand that the world isn't made up of happy endings, but messy, complicated, and untidy ones.
Lisa Lutz
#56. My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
Chuck Palahniuk
#57. The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)
George R R Martin
#59. Not all fairytales have happy endings, my dear ... Not all witches burn in ovens, not every princess wakes up, and sometimes the trail of breadcrumbs doesn't lead to a safe place ... I should know.- Extract from The Blood Witching, copyright Eleanor Keane.
Eleanor Keane
#60. There are no happy endings there are only happy people.
Dorothy Gilman
#61. The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.
Ruth Glick
#62. Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
Kristin Hannah
#63. There are things in this book, as in life, that might upset you. There is death and pain in here, tears and discomfort, violence of all kinds, cruelty, even abuse. There is kindness, too, I hope, sometimes. Even a handful of happy endings. (Few
Neil Gaiman
#64. What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#65. You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
"Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.
Karen Joy Fowler
#66. Not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn't mean they're not worth the read.
Cassia Leo
#67. For reasons that seem obvious to me, I don't believe in happy endings or even in endings at all, but I am as susceptible to moments of indulgent fantasy as anybody else.
John Darnielle
#68. I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.
Donatella Versace
#69. Fate doesn't stick around for happy endings - it only gives you the opportunity to work for one.
Jessica Hawkins
#70. Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.
Stephen Graham Jones
#71. 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
#72. There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.
Shel Silverstein
#74. Happy endings are for people that can't survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps.
S.L.J. Shortt
#75. I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching.
Anders Holm
#76. Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.
Jodi Picoult
#77. Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees
Jodi Picoult
#78. Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.
Tim McGraw
#79. People outside of mental institutions need to have good morals so that the world will continue to work without any major interruptions - and happy endings will flourish.
Matthew Quick
#80. If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.
Lemony Snicket
#81. 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
#82. Mirror sighed. I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen.
Michael Buckley
#83. I like your story," I say, running my hand up his sweater. "Happy endings are sexy." Ford grins. "When you say shit like that, I can't believe you don't hear how fucking dirty you sound.
Bijou Hunter
#84. Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.
Salman Rushdie
#85. The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.
Angelina Jolie
#86. Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there are disappointments ... one must not keep expectations. I like to be positive in love. I believe in happy endings.
Katrina Kaif
#87. 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
#88. I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that.
Rebecca Mader
#89. There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Isaac Asimov
#90. Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings
Isobelle Carmody
#91. 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
#92. The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's the great deadener. Those moments of joyful release from terror are not so easily had.
Ian McEwan
#93. I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me ... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.
Malorie Blackman
#94. There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
S.J. Watson
#95. In this life ain't no happy endings;
Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.
J. Cole
#96. Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#97. You see, in real life, there are no happy endings, because real life, real love, has no ending. So all of this ... This is our happy beginning.
Cassia Leo
#98. Happy endings are reserved strictly for the fiction shelves of bookstores
Holly Bourne
#99. 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
#100. It's an Irish story, love, Mrs. Wylltson said. We don't do happy endings.
Kersten Hamilton
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