Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's…

— Vince Gilligan

“All’s bad that ends badly, and it’s only the sick-minded who can feed on the past.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“And—maybe it’s ridiculous to go on in this vein, although it doesn’t matter since no one’s ever going to see this—but does it make…

— Donna Tartt

“Does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that…

— Donna Tartt

“And-maybe it’s ridiculous to go on in this vein, although it doesn’t matter since no one’s ever going to see this—but does it make…

— Donna Tartt

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other…

— Mitch Albom

“...but does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, and that we all lose everything…

— Donna Tartt

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly...

— Matthew Quick

“… does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and…

— Donna Tartt

I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the…

— Dexter Fletcher

You can have everything you want as long as you don't want it badly enough.

— Yogi Berra

“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”

— G.K. Chesterton

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters…

— Jill Abramson

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz