Hunter S. Thompson Quotes: Insightful and Unconventional Words from a Literary Rebel

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. – Hunter S. Thompson

Fear is just another word for ignorance. – Hunter S. Thompson

The only people who really know where the edge is are the ones who have gone over. – Hunter S. Thompson

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. – 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, 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

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side. – Hunter S. Thompson

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

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. – Hunter S. Thompson

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs. – Hunter S. Thompson

Weird behavior is natural in smart children like curiosity is to a kitten. – Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. – Hunter S. Thompson

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

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. – Hunter S. Thompson

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? – Hunter S. Thompson

This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves. – Hunter S. Thompson

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. – Hunter S. Thompson

It never got weird enough for me. – Hunter S. Thompson

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used. – Hunter S. Thompson

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

Sex without love is as hollow and ludicrous as love without sex. – Hunter S. Thompson

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

The TV business is uglier than most things. – Hunter S. Thompson

No sympathy for the devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride. – Hunter S. Thompson

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs. – Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. – Hunter S. Thompson

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. – 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

As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit. – Hunter S. Thompson

The TV business is uglier than most things. – Hunter S. Thompson

No sympathy for the devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride. – 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

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

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right. – Hunter S. Thompson

Too weird to live, too rare to die! – Hunter S. Thompson

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and 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

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. – Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. – Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. – Hunter S. Thompson

Language is a virus from outer space. – Hunter S. Thompson

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. – Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. – Hunter S. Thompson

Weird behavior is natural in smart children like curiosity is to a kitten. – Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. – Hunter S. Thompson

The only people who really know where the edge is are the ones who have gone over. – Hunter S. Thompson

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. – 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, 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

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. – Hunter S. Thompson