P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

A book is a suicide postponed.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time and on Saturday night.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.

Suicide kills two people.

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.