October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

- Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop.She's realized the real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

- Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes

Should teach us that there are no happy endings, so no desilusionariamos us if we did not get our happy ending.

- Kat Unda

There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.

- Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale.Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

- Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists

Life has no happy endings, actually, no endings at all, just an ongoing series of beginnings. A story—whether it’s happy or sad, whether it makes sense or not, what its meaning is—depends entirely on where you start it and where you end it.

- Judith Ryan Hendricks

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

- Oliver Gaspirtz

How do you see the world? Happy endings come not through events but through a shift in perception.

- Jane Tara, The Happy Endings Book Club

You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.“Because they end too early,” she continues. “They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.

- Hank Moody, God Hates Us All

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

- Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast