Top 1200 Unhappy Endings Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is, when they were very young, she was not a good mother. She was an unhappy mother. She was an unhappy wife. She had never known what it was to be a good mother. She didn't have a good mother of her own. And so there's a kind of parenting that doesn't happen.

I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.

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

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.

I want people to see that there are happy endings, that we do achieve our goals, that it's never too late.

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

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 clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

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.

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

I was a mess when the movie [Into the Forest] ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings.

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?

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

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

Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

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

If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life.

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.

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

We have a choice. We can live in the past and be miserable and unhappy, or we can pick ourselves up and move ahead in life. When we choose to focus forward, we can find the energy and ability to remove any obstacles that may appear to be hindering our smooth progression. If you take stock of yourself and find you may be spending time frequently reliving unhappy experiences of the past, make the decision to rid yourself of the ties that bind you to a former way of life.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.

I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

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

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.

The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.