#endings

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#endings #excellent #express #happy #joint

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#endings #friendship #growing-up #life #change

There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#stories #forgiveness

Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants is to go back to his own world. He doesn't even stop to ask if his story there has a happy ending!" "Well, that's no different from real life," remarked Elinor gloomily. "You never know if things will turn out well. Just now our own story looks like it's coming to a bad end. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#life #story #life

True love stories never have endings. ↗

— Richard Bach

#love #love stories #never #stories #true

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream? ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#dreams #robin-jones-gunn #surprise-endings #dreams

Everything has to come to an end, sometime. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#logic #logic

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#endings #goals

'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life. ↗

— Joe Wright

#believe #come #cop-out #cultural #ending