Sad Ending Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

Mark Polish

#3. Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

Nick Hornby

#4. - the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

Andrew Kaufman

#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. Unfortunately, a lot of people in the world will never be get a happy ending and it's okay if they give up, it's okay if they don't persevere, but it's also okay if they push on just for a few moments of happiness before they reach their sad ending.

Christy Leigh Stewart

#7. Love is pointless. It's the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

Arnold Arre

#8. A story with a clear ending, happy or sad, is an acceptable story.

Aaron Starmer

#9. When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#10. The oriole entered the capital of dawn. The sword of his song closed the sad bed.
Everything forever ended.

Rene Char

#11. You don't need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.

Krystal McLean

#12. Fairy tale doesn't always have a happy ending. But still, it's a fairy tale.
So does first love. It might not be happy, but it doesn't have always to be sad. It's just love.

Dian Purnomo

#13. Rejection, though
it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

Deb Caletti

#14. When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. I'd get up and look in the mirror and my eyes were sad.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#15. It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also interesting... if you know what's about overall..., know the ending... don't you want to understand why??? By going deeper and deeper!?

Deyth Banger

#16. If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.

John Duover

#17. She said that everything that disappeared from our side went over to theirs, where they kept living normal lives, waiting for the things still lingering with us to join them, and make the world whole once more.

Alexandra Kleeman

#18. I very rarely get actually sad when ending a movie.

Mila Kunis

#19. Do not be sad that all odds are against you; be happy that your real purpose is by you

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

Emma Thompson

#21. He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to comfortable, from sad to happy, from unfair to accommodating. Anything was possible in his imagination. Any ending. If only thinking it could make it so.

Kevin Henkes

#22. The crickets sang in the grasses. They sang the song of summer's ending, a sad monotonous song. "Summer is over and gone, over and gone, over and gone. Summer is dying, dying." A little maple tree heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety.

E.B. White

#23. Clem rubbed at her face with her cuff and gave a quick, rueful smile. 'It's just so sad. It's the umpteenth time I've read it, and I will always think it will have a different ending. But it never does.

Anna Hope

#24. We have reduced the kingdom of God to private piety, the victory of the cross to comfort for the conscience, and Easter itself to a happy, escapist ending after a sad, dark tale. Piety, conscience, and ultimate happiness are important, but not nearly as important as Jesus himself.

N. T. Wright

#25. There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#26. 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

#27. This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.

Carl Pohlad

#28. We are a stoic, reserved bunch who hide our emotions well - except when reading a terribly sad or poignant story, of course. I have been known to sob aloud at a tragic ending.

Lynn Austin

#29. Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Bob Woodward

#30. The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight.

Charles Baudelaire

#31. 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

#32. It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'
'Please,' I said.
And then he did.

Hanya Yanagihara

#33. It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.

Kristin Cashore

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

Mandy Hubbard

#35. All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.
And this one is Teddy's.

Kate Atkinson

#36. The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, "Aha. Of course. That's right."

Carrie Jones

#37. There is a sad end I used to live
even before I knew
this is how I was meant to begin.

Khadija Rupa

#38. I'm sorry," he tells me.
I sit down on the bed. He returns to the view of the street below. I follow his gaze and I see the infected walking slowly back and forth.
"It's okay," I say.
"Okay," he says. He nods. "Good."
He puts the gun under his chin and pulls the trigger.

Courtney Summers

#39. A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

R.J. Gonzales

#40. I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.

Turcois Ominek

#41. Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

Sandra Brown

#42. 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

#43. The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

John Fowles

#44. And the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars.

Eleanor Catton

#45. And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

Jack Kerouac

#46. I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending

Anonymous

#47. The truth was that in the end, sad felt better than rage - a lot better. But rage came easier. Sad felt like the world was ending. (150)

Monica Holloway

#48. I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#49. Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.

Yiyun Li