Happy Endings Quotes

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

  Orson Welles

  Happiness, Writing, Optimistic

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.221, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Shel Silverstein

  Life Lesson, Giving, Middle

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• There are no happy endings.

  George R. R. Martin

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.225, Bantam

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• 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

  True Love, Letting Go, Goodbye

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• happy endings start with new beginnings.

  Luanne Rice

  New Beginnings

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• True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

  Alexander the Great

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• What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

  William Dean Howells

  Tragedy, Theatre, Want

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• I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.

  George Clooney

  Believe, Journey, Inspirational Celebrity

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• What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Islamic, Ends, Flawed

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• Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

  Liane Moriarty

  Relief, Cry, Made

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• You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Risk

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• If we own the story then we can write the ending.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Littles, Realizing

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• Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.

  Kim Harrison

  Heart, Fighting, Sacrifice

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

  Lauren Oliver

  Action, Break

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

  Terri Windling

  Journey, Stills, Our Lives

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• Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

  "Fictional character: Soothsayer". "Kung Fu Panda 2", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Knows, Satisfying

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Happy endings make me puke.

  Roman Polanski

  Puke

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• Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

  David O. Russell

  Unhappy, Unhappy Endings

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Happy endings are still endings.

  Gregory Maguire

  Stills

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• I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

  Isabel Gillies

  Inspirational, Marriage, Hurt

  Isabel Gillies (2009). “Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

  Alice Munro

  Moving, Writing, Mean

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Oct 01, 2014

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

  Frances Hardinge

  Stories, Want, True Story

  "Fly by Night". Book by Frances Hardinge, October 7, 2005.

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• If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Enjoy

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, 1999.

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