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 up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

Author: Hunter S. Thompson

Topic: Sympathy Quotes

Positive Quotes

“Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

Motivational Quotes

“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

Inspirational Quotes

“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

Feb 17, 2019

Learning Quotes

“It never got weird enough for me.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

Lifestyle Quotes

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

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

“I am becoming a god! Why? Because I want to be one, and I can!.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

Inspirational Quotes

“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

Feb 17, 2019

“Some people will tell you that slow is good—and it may be, on some days—but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

“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

Feb 17, 2019

Lifestyle Quotes

“Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 30-foot rope. Then he'd advertise it all over the front pages of the newspapers and on television.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

Business Quotes

“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

Feb 17, 2019

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

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

Knowledge Quotes

“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

“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

Feb 17, 2019

“A word to the wise is infuriating.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

Relationship Quotes

“I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

“There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

Motivational Quotes

“I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open-minded guy and I'm game for anything.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Feb 17, 2019

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