110+ Hunter S. Thompson Quotes On Death, Politics And Journalism

Hunter S. Thompson was an American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He was a major figure in the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s, known for his flamboyant writing style and use of psychedelic drugs. He also wrote several books on politics, as well as the critically acclaimed book Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Hunter S. Thompson on life, death, love.

Top 10 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

1. The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
2. Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
3. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
4. I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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?
8. Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
9. I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
10. A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

Hunter S. Thompson Image Quotes

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop. — Hunter S. Thompson

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Short Quotes

• You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
• My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.
• Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
• For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
• I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
• Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
• At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
• Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
• The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
• Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Life

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! — Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. — Hunter S. Thompson

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning. — Hunter S. Thompson

I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me. — Hunter S. Thompson

Good people drink good beer. — Hunter S. Thompson

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. — Hunter S. Thompson

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces. — Hunter S. Thompson

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Death

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits. — Hunter S. Thompson

Too weird to live, and too rare to die. — Hunter S. Thompson

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. — Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. — Hunter S. Thompson

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Love

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors. — Hunter S. Thompson

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex. — Hunter S. Thompson

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. — Hunter S. Thompson

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night. — Hunter S. Thompson

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste. — Hunter S. Thompson

In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it. — Hunter S. Thompson

I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who read unknown writer's work. Maybe he was just hustling me. He liked to flirt, Allen. They called him a monster but he was only falling in love. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Politics

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. — Hunter S. Thompson

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. — Hunter S. Thompson

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists. — Hunter S. Thompson

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor. — Hunter S. Thompson

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. — Hunter S. Thompson

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right. — Hunter S. Thompson

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. — Hunter S. Thompson

Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. — Hunter S. Thompson

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Journalism

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. — Hunter S. Thompson

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. — Hunter S. Thompson

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. — Hunter S. Thompson

Buy the ticket, take the ride. — Hunter S. Thompson

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. — Hunter S. Thompson

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. — Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach. — Hunter S. Thompson

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. — Hunter S. Thompson

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Writing

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing. — Hunter S. Thompson

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words. — Hunter S. Thompson

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me — Hunter S. Thompson

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway. — Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism... — Hunter S. Thompson

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling. — Hunter S. Thompson

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline. — Hunter S. Thompson

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music. — Hunter S. Thompson

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Music

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. — Hunter S. Thompson

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages. — Hunter S. Thompson

Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all. — Hunter S. Thompson

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs. — Hunter S. Thompson

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts. — Hunter S. Thompson

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. — Hunter S. Thompson

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music. — Hunter S. Thompson

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. — Hunter S. Thompson

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator! — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Edge

THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. — Hunter S. Thompson

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. — Hunter S. Thompson

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. — Hunter S. Thompson

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About People

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic. — Hunter S. Thompson

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people. — Hunter S. Thompson

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. — Hunter S. Thompson

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. — Hunter S. Thompson

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers. — Hunter S. Thompson

There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it. — Hunter S. Thompson

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people. — Hunter S. Thompson

Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. — Hunter S. Thompson

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Nixon

Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him. — Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. — Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. — Hunter S. Thompson

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream. — Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. — Hunter S. Thompson

Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together. — Hunter S. Thompson

George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Gambling

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. — Hunter S. Thompson

Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd. — Hunter S. Thompson

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. — Hunter S. Thompson

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another. — Hunter S. Thompson

Without gambling, I would not exist. — Hunter S. Thompson

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat. — Hunter S. Thompson

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. — Hunter S. Thompson

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners. — Hunter S. Thompson

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart. — Hunter S. Thompson

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. — Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Famous Quotes And Sayings

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common. — Hunter S. Thompson

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. — Hunter S. Thompson

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives. — Hunter S. Thompson

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL. — Hunter S. Thompson

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. — Hunter S. Thompson

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. — Hunter S. Thompson

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer. — Hunter S. Thompson

Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other. — Hunter S. Thompson

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them. — Hunter S. Thompson

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. — Hunter S. Thompson

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it. — Hunter S. Thompson

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. — Hunter S. Thompson

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal. — Hunter S. Thompson

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond. — Hunter S. Thompson

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids. — Hunter S. Thompson

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world — a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. — Hunter S. Thompson

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. — Hunter S. Thompson

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached. — Hunter S. Thompson

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit. — Hunter S. Thompson

Don't judge your taco by its price — Hunter S. Thompson

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase. — Hunter S. Thompson

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. — Hunter S. Thompson

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition. — Hunter S. Thompson

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. — Hunter S. Thompson

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. — Hunter S. Thompson

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. — Hunter S. Thompson

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned. — Hunter S. Thompson

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. — Hunter S. Thompson

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn. — Hunter S. Thompson

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died. — Hunter S. Thompson

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. 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. — Hunter S. Thompson

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted. — Hunter S. Thompson

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. — Hunter S. Thompson

I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting. — Hunter S. Thompson

Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed. — Hunter S. Thompson

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. — Hunter S. Thompson

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands. — Hunter S. Thompson

Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear. — Hunter S. Thompson

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so. — Hunter S. Thompson

Wake up and ponder the future — Hunter S. Thompson

Life Lessons by Hunter S. Thompson

1. Hunter S. Thompson taught us to be brave and take risks in life, to never be afraid to stand up for what we believe in, and to always live life to the fullest.
2. He also showed us that it is important to take time to enjoy the little things in life and to always stay true to ourselves.
3. Finally, he showed us that it is important to be passionate and to never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard it may seem.