Sad Ending Quotes

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to.

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

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

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

All good things must come to an end.

In film, you can have sad endings.

- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the desert and finds a little crushed UFO with a martian who has survived the crash. She takes him home, and they fall in love. Later he has to meet with his fellow martians who have arrived to rescue him. It's a sad ending. This was my first truly narrative story and apparently the first narrative story in fashion photography.

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.

Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

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

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.