Tragic Endings Quotes

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

I prefer the European films that are like, 'No, it's over! They both die. The End.'

With my being from Hawaii and being very family oriented I don't really have a fear of a tragic ending. I dont see any tragic ending for me.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

I had seen my buddies crash and burn. Keith Moon died, and I always thought that was the way he wanted to go. John Belushi was a dear friend. A lot of the guys that I ran with were ending up dead, and I saw myself right on schedule to do that. I had some moments of clarity - once in a while.

Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.

...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

Happy endings make me puke.

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

Rather nostalgically, I sometimes think I could still play Juliet. Inside, I'm still an incorrigible romantic.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

I love depressing movies and depressing books.

If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

Parineeta is a classic love story.

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like 'Wuthering Heights,' and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.