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Hunter S. Thompson was an American journalist, novelist, and a sub-cultural figure who played a significant role in the American New Wave counter-culture movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Throughout his diverse career, Thompson wrote over twenty books and articles, some of which are still read today. His most notable work is “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” – an account which he wrote as a first-person narrative of his experiences when on assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle race in Las Vegas.
He is typically credited with popularizing what became known as gonzo journalism. Check out his motivational quotes will give you the drive to shape a life that is your own.
73 Inspiring Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
“Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.”
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
“If you can’t make yourself understood by your friends, you’ll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.”
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem”
“If you have half a story and you don’t know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.”
“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”
“You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.”
“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”
“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.”
“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.”
“Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn’t want”
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”
“I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it’s a bit like f*cking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old w*ores don’t do much giggling.”
“Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better.”
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
“You can’t miss what you never had.”
“Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks…”
“Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
“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.”
“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.”
“You can’t hoard fun. It has no shelf life.”
“On my tombstone they will carve, ‘IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.’”
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
“All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.”
“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”
“You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.”
“Poor bastard. Wait ’till he sees the bats.”
“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
“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?”
“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
“I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the t*ts off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.”
“It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”
“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
“For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.”
“Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.”
“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.”
“Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.”
“An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.”
“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”
“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.”
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”
“The edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is the ones who have gone over.”
“I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.”
“If you can’t make yourself understood by your friends, you’ll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.”
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”
“Who said anything about slicing you up? … I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead– nothing serious.”
“The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion.”
“It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”
“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.”
“To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men’s emotions are very rarely put into words successfully. ”
“A word to the wise is infuriating.”
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
“At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.”
“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.”
“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.”
I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
“It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.”
“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.”
“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”
“One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.”
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
“It’s the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don’t care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.”
“I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
“I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
“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.”
“You can’t miss what you never had.”
“The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs”
