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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I like happy endings. -- Harmon Killebrew
There are no happy endings. -- George R. R. Martin
I don't believe in happy endings. -- Jeanette Winterson
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. -- Henry James
A recipe is a story with a happy ending. -- Daniel Thompson
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. -- George R. R. Martin
You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey. -- Abraham Hicks
There are no happy endings there are only happy people. -- Dorothy Gilman
Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending. -- Kristin Cast
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. -- Charles Haughey
I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that. -- Rebecca Mader
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. -- Isaac Asimov
You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending. -- Julia Quinn
I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending. -- Katy Perry
If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough. -- Cooper Edens
My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. -- Glen Duncan
A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. -- Judith McNaught
Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind. -- Stefan Emunds
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. -- Ernest Hemingway
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. -- Alice Munro
Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man. -- Maggie Young
If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings. -- Jessica Brody The Karma Club
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. -- William Dean Howells
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings. -- Jennifer Aniston
I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that. -- Bonnie Tyler
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. -- Jill Robinson
I've come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending. -- Jaejoong
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. -- Orson Welles
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. -- Stephen King
I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending. -- Yani Tseng
A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there. -- Alan Cohen
- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends. -- Andrew Kaufman
Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story. -- Lisa Mangum
There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out. -- Sam Kinison
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. -- Jane Yolen
A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. -- Leah Stewart
You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody. -- Paul Feig
Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story. -- Rick Warren
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. -- Tammara Webber
I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story. -- David Blatt
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. -- Joe Wright
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. -- Evelyn Keyes
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start. -- Shel Silverstein
True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you. -- Barbara Johnson
Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly. -- Susanna Kaysen
To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
I, Kotoko AiharaNow Kotoko Iriehave finally become Irie-kun's wife. And though this may seem like a happy ending, it is actually more of a happy beginning. -- Kaoru Tada
Oh god Let all lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebrations Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love -- Rumi
Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance. -- Roger Ebert
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative. -- Tim Robbins
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. -- Douglas Sirk
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings. -- Garry Trudeau
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
Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending. -- Daniel Handler
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
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
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The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead. -- Lynda Barry
I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse! -- Carole Gill
If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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
The tragedies of our past are the stepping stones for us to reach the happy endings of our tomorrows. Guilt is not going to help you become a better person. Acceptance will. -- Yara Greathouse
If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question. -- Stephen King
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. -- Huston Smith
All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop.She's realized the real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. -- Neil Gaiman
STONELet my heartturn tostone.Maybe thenI can sleepwithoutnightmares.May be thenI can eatwithouta stomachache.Maybe thenI can readwithout fearof an unhappy ending.Take the knifeout of my heartand,please,let itturn to stone. -- Lisa Schroeder
I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending. -- Jamaica Kincaid
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
Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News. -- Bill Maher
Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending. -- Chuck Klosterman
God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it. -- Robert Herrick
Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense. -- Axl Rose
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. -- Patrick Ness
Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say. -- Jack London
Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy. -- Hanna Rosin
I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it. -- Malorie Blackman
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. -- George Clooney
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
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
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands. -- Polykarp Kusch
It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too. -- Sharon Kay Penman
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world. -- Ruth Glick
I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise. -- Elisabeth Elliot
The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids. -- Angelina Jolie
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. -- Ernest Hemingway
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility. -- Brendan I. Koerner
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year. -- Scott Westerfeld
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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
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
He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear! -- Cornelia Funke
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
It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy. -- Hunter S. Thompson
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. -- Peter S. Beagle
Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story -- Peter S. Beagle
Despite their exhaustion and worries, Miner and Ennek made love that night, tracing fingers and tongues over one another's marks and scars. Their bodies were like books, Ennek thought, and their stories could be read inch by inch. He hoped fervently for happy endings. -- Kim Fielding
I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending. -- Ruth Glick
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
The great thing about television is that most things get resolved by the end of the episode. So I think a lot of people watch TV to see something of their real lives reflected on the screen, but also they're hoping for that happy ending. -- Kali Hawk
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened. -- Ted Demme
What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack? -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy? -- Robert Todd Carroll
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending. -- Kate Christensen
There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions. -- Jodi Picoult
I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings. -- Rufus Wainwright
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
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love. -- Andrew Solomon
Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending. -- George Sheehan
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
What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending. -- Penny Jordan
I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending. -- Marian Keyes
What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light. -- Julia Green
We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression. -- William the Silent
The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow. -- Drew Barrymore

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