Quotes about Happy End

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Votes: 4

I like happy endings. Votes: 3

There are no happy endings. Votes: 3

I don't believe in happy endings. Votes: 3

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. Votes: 3

A recipe is a story with a happy ending. Votes: 3

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. Votes: 3

You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey. Votes: 3

There are no happy endings there are only happy people. Votes: 3

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending. Votes: 3

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. Votes: 3

I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that. Votes: 3

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. Votes: 3

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending. Votes: 3

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending. Votes: 3

If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough. Votes: 3

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. Votes: 3

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. Votes: 3

Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind. Votes: 3

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Votes: 3

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. Votes: 3

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man. Votes: 3

If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings. Votes: 3

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. Votes: 3

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. Votes: 3

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings. Votes: 3

I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that. Votes: 3

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. Votes: 3

I've come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending. Votes: 3

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Votes: 3

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. Votes: 3

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending. Votes: 3

A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there. Votes: 3

- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends. Votes: 3

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story. Votes: 3

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out. Votes: 3

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. Votes: 3

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. Votes: 3

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody. Votes: 3

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story. Votes: 3

I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. Votes: 3

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story. Votes: 3

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. Votes: 3

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. Votes: 3

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start. Votes: 3

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you. Votes: 3

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly. Votes: 3

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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'. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time. Votes: 2

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. Votes: 2

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story. Votes: 2

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. Votes: 2

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience. Votes: 2

There's just so many things I wanna do. At the end of the day, I wanna be happy. Votes: 2

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life. Votes: 2

To be honest, I rewrote 'Wicked Nights' a number of times. I just wasn't happy with the end result. Votes: 2

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. Votes: 2

By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.' Votes: 2

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time. Votes: 2

I like to have everything smiley and happy for my husband. Men don't want to see a grumpy face at the end of a hard day. Votes: 2

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night. Votes: 2

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving. Votes: 2

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end. Votes: 2

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken. Votes: 2

It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple. Votes: 2

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. Votes: 2

At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set. Votes: 2

End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, you won't be happy unil you love yourself. Votes: 0

As long as I don't end up hosting a skin care commercial with Cher, I'm happy. Votes: 0

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. Votes: 0

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end"¦ because how could the end be happy? Votes: 0

Remember if it's not happy then it's not the end so babe keep fighting, you'll win this war. Votes: 0

I'm happy to start on one topic and end on another one entirely, as long as it's funny. Votes: 0

At the end of the day it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks as long as you're happy. Votes: 0

Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy. Votes: 0

To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life. Votes: 0

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy. Votes: 0

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs. Votes: 0

For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play. Votes: 0

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end. Votes: 0

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened. Votes: 0

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. Votes: 0

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end. Votes: 0

I'm extremely humbled, I'm happy and I'm blessed, because at the end of the day, I'm doing what I love to do. Votes: 0

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end. Votes: 0

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy. Votes: 0

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed. Votes: 0

They [Iran] are going to end up getting nuclear. I met with Bibi Netanyahu the other day. Believe me, he's not a happy camper. Votes: 0

To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled. Votes: 0

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have. Votes: 0

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may. Votes: 0

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day. Votes: 0

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved. Votes: 0

The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy. Votes: 0

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit. Votes: 0

"His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling. Votes: 0

I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad. Votes: 0

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. Votes: 0

Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end! Votes: 0

I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile. Votes: 0

I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy"¦ in the end you've got to make yourself happy. Votes: 0

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail. Votes: 0

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end. Votes: 0

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Votes: 0