S. E. Hinton Quotes

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

If it's just the same with you, Mr. President, I'd like to lie down and die.

It got to a point where I didn't care if I lived or I died.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

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.

July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.