Definition of Suicide

Suicide

The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

Ruin of one's own interests.

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Suicide Quotations

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody Allen

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S. Truman

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
Chuck Palahniuk

Political courage is not political suicide.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
Mitt Romney

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Bill Maher

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.
Harvey Fierstein

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Emile M. Cioran

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window.
Bill Maher

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Martin Heidegger

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

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Suicide Translations

suicide in French is suicide
suicide in German is Selbstmord, Sebstmord, Freitod
suicide in Italian is suicidio
suicide in Spanish is suicidio

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