Quotes About No Happy Ending

#1. 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

#2. It has been said by many that a true love story has no happy ending simply because the truest of loves never ends. It is immortal. This is the kind of love that lives forever in your heart as a feeling you will always feel, a place you can always return to.

Michele L. Rivera

#3. It didn't and doesn't turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It's only a matter of how long you can live with it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#4. Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending

Eoin Colfer

#5. Shy, I can't be fixed. We won't ride off into the sunset. There will be no happy ending.

Nina G. Jones

#6. There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

Sam Kinison

#7. 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

#8. There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

Bill McKibben

#9. If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough.

Cooper Edens

#10. We are traveling down a path with no happy ending, and it's too late to turn around.

Mandy Hubbard

#11. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren't guy and girl. We weren't damaged and terminal. We were just now.

Elizabeth Langston

#13. And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no lesson to be learnt.
It was like one person's cry of pain, echoing out on and on and on trough the generations, even after that person was long long dead.

Chris Beckett

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind.

Stefan Emunds

#19. There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Frank Herbert

#20. 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

#21. Does the ending even matter? Shouldn't the middle be the happy part? It's the biggest chunk of our life, and yet no one ever asks if two people had a happy middle. They care too much about the ending.

R.S. Grey

#22. After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

Lionel Trilling

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

Kristin Cast

#29. There was no romantic ending for Charlotte, but that's where writing your own novel can be so useful.

Catherine Lowell

#30. When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.

Amy Tan

#31. 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

#32. True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

Alexander The Great

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Amie frowned. 'That's what I can't figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It's sick, really.

Jennifer Silverwood

#37. 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

#38. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

Jodi Picoult

#39. Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air. It is the place I come back to, no matter where I've been headed.

Jodi Picoult

#40. 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

#41. You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Jennifer Echols

#42. I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.

Rosamund Lupton

#43. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.

Jo Walton

#44. She is a story with no ending, happy or sad. She can never belong to anything mortal enough to want her. Most

Peter S. Beagle

#45. In my fantasy world everyone has a happy ending. No one is told who they should be, how they should feel, who they are allowed to love, what they should believe and how they should look. Sadly, everyone in my world can't seem to get along with one another because everyone is so darn different.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. Relationships don't come with a warranty and being in love is no guarantee of a happy ending.

Jonathan Tropper

#47. In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

Alice Sebold

#48. Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.

Ernst Junger

#49. Fate doesn't guarantee us a happy ending. We're not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn't some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.

Claudia Gray

#50. there is no story where two girls
get a happy ending. she tells me fine, we'll write it ourselves

Topaz Winters

#51. There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present.

Melissa De La Cruz

#52. This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

Terry Pratchett

#53. What are you reading?" Owen asks.
"Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died."
"You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

Gabrielle Zevin

#54. [Life] wasn't a fairy tale, and it didn't have a happy ending--but then again, no story did. In the end everybody dies... But you can be happy right up until the last page...

Aury Wallington

#55. True love doesn't have a happy ending, it had no ending.

Unknwn

#56. You really have no idea, do you?"
"No idea about what?"
"How thoroughly you own me, Nightie Girl," he said, leaning in to whisper this part in my ear. "And I know I love you enough to want you to have your happy ending.

Alice Clayton

#57. All there is is this deep-in-my-stomach feeling of terror, and this fear that there is no really happy ending anymore.

Ava Dellaira