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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'
and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.
This is a tragic world we live in.
The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.
He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.
I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.
That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.
About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.
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.
At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.
I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
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.
The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.
World history is tragic.
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
It's a tragic fact to die in an accident
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.
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
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
Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."
You have to take the tragic and turn it to magic.
Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.
It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.
Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.
Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.
You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.
Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.
I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
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.
Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.
I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
Those 'Rocky' endings are great in the movies and on the stage, but I don't think it would be too smart for me to get into that kind of fight in the ring.
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
