Happy Endings Quotes - Page 8

• The happy ending is our national belief.

  Mary McCarthy

  Happiness, Belief

  "America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub" (1947)

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  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

  Dog, Lying, Moving

  "Axl Rose to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: I'm Not Coming and Don't Induct Me" by Erik Pedersen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2012.

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• I've never asked for a happy ending

  Lauren Kate

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• And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to the dawnWe were born to overcomeWe carry onBeyond the picket fences and the oil wellsThe happy endings and the fairy talesIs the reality of shattered lives and broken dreamsWe carry on

  Tim McGraw

  Morning, Dark, Reality

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• In this life ain't no happy endings;
  Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Years, Fake

  Song: Runaway, 2013

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• Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true.

  Amit Abraham

  True Love, Love Is, Long

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• Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Children, Past, Dragons

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• 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

  Character, Writing, Entertainment

  "Garry Trudeau: What a Long, Strange Strip It’s Been". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/february 2007.

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

  Alice Munro

  Writing, Thinking, Growing

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jul 17, 2016

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• 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

  Work Out, Accomplishment, Suffering

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• Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

  Brett Somers

  Mother, Play, Peculiar

  "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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• I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

  Katy Perry

  Independent Women, Needs, Happy Girl

  "Katy Perry dismisses her relationship with Rob Ackroyd as 'not serious' (here's to hoping he already knew that)" by Rachael Wheeler, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2012.

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• If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

  John Ortberg

  Love, Neat And Tidy, Community

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan

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• The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

  Jessica Alba

  Real, Real Life, Film

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• As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Beautiful, Spring, Real

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• A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

  Chita Rivera

  Doe

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  Cooper Edens

  Cookies, Dough, Ifs

  Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.81, Chronicle Books

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

  Tammara Webber

  Real, Hopeful, Enough

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Between the Lines”, p.281, Tammara Webber

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• People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Epic, People

  "This explains Joss perfectly" by Joss Whedon, whedonesque.com. February 14, 2006.

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• There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

  Dorothy Gilman

  People, Happy People

  "Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station".

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• 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

  Inspirational, Women, Writing

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• Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there are disappointments…one must not keep expectations. I like to be positive in love. I believe in happy endings.

  Katrina Kaif

  Disappointment, Believe, Book

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

  Lisa Mangum

  Stories, Your Future, Our Future

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• I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

  John Green

  Life, Giving Up, Mean

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• Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

  Charles Haughey

  Ireland And The Irish, Strange, Tales

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