Quotes About Sad Endings

#1. In film, you can have sad endings.

Anna Torv

#2. I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

Tammara Webber

#3. Sometimes good people [are] helpless ... terrible things happen ... to good people ... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

Mercedes Lackey

#4. 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

#5. My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.

Nora Ephron

#6. 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

#7. And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Stephen King

#8. The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.

George F. Kennan

#9. In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#10. A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.

Tino Sehgal

#11. 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

#12. Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

Robin Sharma

#13. I've always been enchanted by the endings of things. Series finales and sunsets. Last paragraphs and encores. I think for the way they remind me that losing something you love isn't always sad and heartbreaking, but sometimes breathtaking and beautiful.

Beau Taplin

#14. I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it's such a sad book in so many ways. I'd cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.

Helen Oyeyemi

#15. What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.

Mal Peet

#16. 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

#17. Endings are sad, aren't they?"
"Yes.

Jeanne Birdsall

#18. People are afraid of happy endings because they're too sad and unsure of themselves.They don't believe they deserve one.

Keltie Colleen

#19. He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

Emily Giffin

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun.

{After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer lines of the sun and Kirchhoff handing him over a medal he was awarded for his investigations.}

Gustav Kirchhoff

#23. Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

Bob Marley

#24. Maybe I should stop while I'm ahead

Nay, I swim with sea-demons

no sweet summer tuned radio

over my sunless desertscape

how does it burn without the sun?

Moonshine Noire

#25. It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#26. All beginnings are scary, like all endings are sad, but that's the journey and everything in between is worth experiencing.

J.C. Reed

#27. Beginnings are usually scary, endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.

Steven Rogers

#28. The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

Tammy Wynette

#29. It's cute when you meet young boys and they're bright red and breathing like they've run up the stairs, but they're just sitting outside the door. I've had phone calls in the middle of the night when I stay at hotels.

Cameron Diaz

#30. I am quite sure ... I have no race prejudice, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All I care to know is that a man is a human being - this is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Mark Twain

#31. Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

Vincent De Paul

#32. 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

#33. You know, every bad guy was once good until he crossed a line. I don't think they come out of the womb being assholes.

Laurann Dohner

#34. It's a poem, of our love, that doesn't rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.

Khadija Rupa

#35. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

Sandra Bullock

#36. 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