„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 American science fiction novelist 1951

„this might be the happy ending without the ending“

—  David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

Quelle: 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, buch Lighthousekeeping

Quelle: Lighthousekeeping (2004), p. 49

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

—  Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

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

—  Brian K. Vaughan American screenwriter, comic book creator 1976

Quelle: Ex Machina, Vol. 10: Term Limits

„The pursuit of happiness never ends.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1997

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

—  John Adams 2nd President of the United States 1735 - 1826

„Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.“

—  Trudi Canavan Australian writer 1969

Quelle: Priestess of the White

„Everyone deserves a happy ending.“

—  Jodi Picoult Author 1966

Quelle: Between the Lines

„"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 French writer 1885 - 1967

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old

„Happiness begins where selfishness ends.“

—  John Wooden American basketball coach 1910 - 2010

Quelle: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

„Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.“

—  Kristin Cast, buch Hunted

Quelle: Hunted

„What the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.“

—  William Dean Howells author, critic and playwright from the United States 1837 - 1920

As quoted in French Ways and Their Meaning http://www.archive.org/details/frenchwaysandthe00wharuoft (1919) by Edith Wharton, p. 65
Variant:
What the American public always wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.
As quoted in A Backward Glance http://archive.org/details/backwardglance030620mbp (1934) by Edith Wharton, p. 147

„A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story“

—  William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616

„There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.“

—  Anthony Trollope, buch Barchester Towers

Quelle: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 27

„everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending………“

—  Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

„There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.“

—  Isaac Asimov, buch The Gods Themselves

Section 3, Chapter 19, p. 287
Quelle: The Gods Themselves (1972)

„Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element.“

—  Henry Giles Irish minister 1809 - 1882

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 297.

„Do I look like a happy-ending to you?“

—  Margaret Cho American stand-up comedian 1968

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