Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all".

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.