Suicide is the act of killing oneself.
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- Many advocates for a "right to die" would also like to see such opportunities expanded to include fully-competent patients with locked-in syndromes, quadriplegias, and other forms of extreme disability, specifically in cases where these victims express an ongoing and rational desire to die, but are physically incapable of ending their own lives. To deny such patients assistance is, to my own thinking, a form of torture by inaction.
- Jacob M. Appel, bioethicist, Next: Assisted Suicide for Healthy People, July 16, 2009.
- If the healthy are granted the right to die, gray areas will inevitably arise. That does not mean that all areas are gray.
- Jacob M. Appel, bioethicist, Next: Assisted Suicide for Healthy People, July 16, 2009.
- A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.
- Jacob M. Appel, bioethicist, Next: Assisted Suicide for Healthy People, July 16, 2009.
- Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.
- Art Buchwald, in a humorous personal mantra he used to combat his states of depression, published in Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006)
- The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908)
- 死神の附いた耳へは、意見も道理も入るまいとは思へど、さりとは愚痴の至り
- To the ears of one possessed by the God of Death, reason and objections seem like so many idle complaints.
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon, The Love Suicides at Amijima (1721)
- The Wood of Suicides has changed since my last visit to Hell. I remember it as a tiny grove. Now it resembles a forest.
- Neil Gaiman, The character Dream, or Morpheus, in The Sandman #4
- What a silly thing to do, he thought. What a goddam silly thing to do. You wont even be there to watch their faces.
- James Jones, From Here to Eternity, Ch. 38
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain …
- John Keats in "Ode to a Nightingale"
- There are a great many ways to commit suicide, you know.
- Stephen King, The Stand (Uncut), chapter 55, p. 799, unidentified edition
- Suicide kills two people. That's what it's for.
- Referring to the guilt and grief close surviving dependents feel after a suicide
- Arthur Miller, After the Fall
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Suicide is not a solution But it remains an excellent option
- Impaled Nazarene, "Nihil", Nihil (2000)
- We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.
- George Sand, Mauprat (1837)
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Sleep is good, death is better, but the best is to have never been born.
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), Morphine poem
- Suicide is a private thing.
- Heather McNamara, Heathers
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Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp; Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
- Dorothy Parker, "Resume" (1926)
- My duty will be to continue to endeavor to do the work I seem to have been put into the world to do; and when the moment arrives at which there seems to be no rational hope of making my life useful, my duty, as I see it, will be to treat my life just as I would an aching tooth that there was no hope of making useful. I will have it out.
- Charles Sanders Peirce, as quoted in Charles Sanders Peirce : A Life, by Joseph Brent
- Dying
is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
- Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus"
- Death is before me today
Like the recovery of a sick man …
Like the longing of a man to see his home again
After many years of captivity …
- "Dispute between a man and his Ba", Egypt, ca. 2100 B.C.
- Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong; Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat: Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
- William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 3
- When Goblins Kill themselves it's called stupidity. When Humans do it, it's called heroism.
- Shock Troopers, Magic: The Gathering
- Suicide? To tell you the truth, I disapprove of suicide more than anything.
- Vash The Stampede, "Trigun"
- Suicide is self-expression.
- Type O Negative in "Gravitational Constant G = 6.67 × 10−8 cm−3gm−1sec−2" on Slow, Deep and Hard (1991) [originally titled None More Negative]
- The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
- Voltaire, "Cato", Philisophical Dictionary, 1764
- There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession
- Daniel Webster, Argument on the murder of Captain White (1830)
- It's better to burn out than to fade away.
- Neil Young, My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) on the album Rust Never Sleeps (1979). Quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note.
- Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
- Widely used expression, used by many authors, it appears at least as early as in Death and Dying (1979) in the Social Issues Resources Series, Vol. 1, p.35
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