“Happy endings are still endings.”

“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad endingsometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually theending.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“this might be the happy ending without the ending”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

“Tell me a story, Pew.
What kind of story, child?
A story with a happy ending.
There's no such thing in all the world.
As a happy ending?
As an ending.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

“"A man's life is happy," says Pascal, "if he begins by being in love and ends by being ambitious." It will be still happier if, after all his ambitions have been satisfied, it ends in tranquility.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”

Trudi Canavan (1969) Australian writer

“The happiness of society is the end of government.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

“Everyone deserves a happy ending.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author