Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.

If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.

I love my brother. But I'm not a yo-yo. He can't just keep spinning me in and out of his life.

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Would you please tell me what you are thinking? Before I go mad?

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I'm lucky that I've never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you - the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends - those are the people you should listen to.