Quotes About No Happy Endings

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

George R R Martin

#4. There are no happy endings.

George R R Martin

#5. There are no happy endings there are only happy people.

Dorothy Gilman

#6. There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.

Shel Silverstein

#7. 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

#8. In this life ain't no happy endings;
Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

J. Cole

#9. 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

#10. There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

Isaac Asimov

#11. Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

Neil Gaiman

#12. Because in life there are no happy endings...

Jessie Bradford

#13. Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to keep the happiness alive.

Cristina Marrero

#14. 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

#15. This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

Selena Gomez

#16. 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

#17. There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

Peter S. Beagle

#18. There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

Lauren Oliver

#19. 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

#20. If he had learned anything in life, it was that there were no happy endings. Life simply went on.

Katarina Bivald

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

Lionel Trilling

#22. 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

#23. And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

Stephen King

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

Sam Kinison

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

Frank Herbert

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

Hope Solo

#29. Though there are no stars, no light but the souls in love will always shine so bright even in darkness.

Auliq Ice

#30. Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.

Peter Eisenman

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

Alexander The Great

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

Matthew Quick

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Cooper Edens

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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