There Are No Happy Endings Quotes

#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. 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

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Jessie Bradford

#10. 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

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

Peter S. Beagle

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

Lauren Oliver

#13. 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

#14. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

#15. An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me ... And you know, people like happy endings.

Elinor Lipman

#16. I couldn't fathom it myself, but I guessed that happy endings came in all shapes and sizes.

Ingrid Law

#17. I had a very quick moment on 'Happy Endings.'

Justin Baldoni

#18. Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones, but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked.

Salman Rushdie

#19. If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.

Jessica Brody

#20. How can someone struggle for a happy ending ... If they don't believe in one.

Bharat Budhani

#21. You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore?"
"Your question is irrelevant," Imogen said. "This isn't the end.

Scott Westerfeld

#22. I think when life gets heavy, people look for an escape. "The Love Boat" is an escape. We have happy endings. You don't see many of those around. I think it gave people a vicarious adventure.

Gavin MacLeod

#23. She'd spent enough time in this life to know that not everything will go your way. She'd read enough books to know that they weren't all happy endings.

Sarah Addison Allen

#24. So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Margaret Atwood

#25. Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

Steven Weber

#26. Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

Kristen Bell

#27. Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after
that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

Robert Altman

#28. I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.

Matthew Quick

#29. 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

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

Cooper Edens

#31. Happy endings make me puke.

Roman Polanski

#32. I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

Jacqueline Wilson

#33. Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

Liane Moriarty

#34. People come to films drowned in reality, leaving behind heart failures, cancer, failed marriages, bad jobs, mean bosses, and future sickness. What they need is not happy endings, but proper endings.

Ray Bradbury

#35. I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.

Geraldine Brooks

#36. Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

Terri Windling

#37. Son," his father said, leaning forward. "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. His

Patrick Ness

#38. People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Margaret Atwood

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

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

Neil Gaiman

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

Auliq Ice

#45. One of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

Kristin Hunter

#46. I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

Joe Eszterhas

#47. Happy endings are for suckers. Even Old Yeller had to die.

Steve Braunstein

#48. Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.

Trudi Canavan

#49. People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

Augusten Burroughs

#50. 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

#51. All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

Janet Malcolm

#52. You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

Larry Gelbart

#53. 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

#54. I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

Steven Jackson

#55. Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Barbara Corcoran

#56. 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

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

Stephen King

#58. Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get.

Chip Rossetti

#59. A remarkable fact of nature is that problems almost always get solved just when they are meant to. And those who can help solve the problems almost always show up at the right time.

Cynthia Rylant

#60. I don't believe that 17-year-olds get happy endings. They get beginnings.

Rainbow Rowell

#61. There's a lady in Midtown who does amazing therapeutic massage."
"I don't need a massage."
"I can see if she gives happy endings."
"I might need a massage.

Tiffany Reisz

#62. 'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

Joe Wright

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn't matter if that's true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you're listening you can believe, for a bit, that you're good too. Worth a happy ending.

Juliet Marillier

#66. There goes Mig with her happy endings again," Chris said. But I don't care. I like happy endings. And I asked Chris why something should be truer just because it's unhappy. He couldn't answer.

Diana Wynne Jones

#67. Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Ariana Franklin

#68. ...As for having him only while on earth... that IS how it stands now, but don't give up. He's a really good person, Jane. And he loves you... You've got to have a little faith -- And keep dreaming. Some happy endings just take a little longer and are harder to come by.

Michele Paige Holmes

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

Khadija Rupa

#70. True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

Frances Hardinge

#71. Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real,
Unless you find the fine line ... and erase it

C. Elizabeth

#72. I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the 'Happy Endings' folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally's just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I'd be great to jump on and do some comedy.

James Wolk

#73. The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#74. 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

#75. While we can't always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we've been dealt.

Adam Silvera

#76. 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