Top 75 Endings Quotes

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

I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don’t see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I’m an optimist – people feel that in my books.

When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.

It’s no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.

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

I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best endings are those that emerge only after I’ve thought long and hard about the various ways the story might end. Then I choose the ending that seems surprising yet somehow inevitable.

I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.

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.

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.

When you really think about it, it doesn’t really matter where a game ends. Ultimately, if the player is satisfied with stopping at a particular point, it doesn’t matter if it’s where the creator intended things to end or not… and so that’s where the idea of having so many endings came about.

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It’s like a promise that’s never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren’t really stories. Just pages.

I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don’t know what’s going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.

The endings to me are the key moment in ‘Weekend’ and ’45 Years.’ I know how I want my gut to feel at the ending. Even if I can’t articulate in words what that feeling is, I’m trying to find ways to get there.

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

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.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they’re actually not as important as they’re sometimes given credit for.

The ‘Bachelor’ franchise does believe in happy endings – some people get an on-camera happy ending, some people get on off-camera happy ending, and some people get both.

The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to the fine nerve endings in the inner ear, though it is worse in the left, which is the side of my snare drum and the monitor.

True love stories never have endings.

I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It’s not being ‘Pollyanna’ about things, but most stories don’t have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later.

I have a problem with beginnings… and endings… and middles. But I don’t know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it’s physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn’t being applauded when you arrive – for that is common – but being missed when you leave.

In my newspaper days, your endings could be literally sliced off in the composing room, so it was dangerous to get attached to them. Yet I think this has made me work harder on endings in fiction.

I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it’s all said and done, it’s all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that’s one of hope.

I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I’m not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don’t always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.

My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.

I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.

One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments – not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.

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.

Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader – not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.

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

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks’ ‘Reading for the Plot. ‘

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

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.

The Tamil audience is more receptive to unusual endings.

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

I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.

Walter is a force of nature, without beginnings and endings.

I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the ‘Happy Endings’ folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally’s just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I’d be great to jump on and do some comedy.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

It is evident that the grip of ‘The Return of the King’ on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it’s tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?

Endings are really hard to do, and it’s hard to do an ending where it’s sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

I don’t like DVD extras. No. Especially when they do things like put out alternative endings? I find all of that a little bizarre, because there should only be one ending. I don’t like to be told, ‘Oh, we could have had it this way,’ for the director’s cut.

When I was a young boy, those ‘Rocky’ movies were my favorite, especially the wild and exciting endings. I loved those films; they inspired me to want to become a fighter.

I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and ‘Little Women’ was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it’s such a sad book in so many ways. I’d cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.

I don’t believe in happy endings.

Endings are not my thing.

Nothing surprises me on ‘Happy Endings,’ because the show – I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it’s so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one’s watching.

I don’t think ‘Shotgon Stories’ or ‘Take Shelter’ have hopeless endings. I think there’s hope in both those films, no matter how hard you have to search for it. It’s there.

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.

Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you’ve got to get to it and get to it now – get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick.