Hunter Thompson Quotes – Unforgettable Words of Wisdom

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.

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.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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

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

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!’

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.

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

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- a savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.

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

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 Thompson Quotes – Unforgettable Words of Wisdom part 2

Freedom is something that is built up slowly. And the fastest way to gain freedom is to smash people who don’t.

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

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

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

You better take care of me, Lord. If you don’t, you’re gonna have me on your hands.

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.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit.

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.

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

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

Freedom is something that is built up slowly. And the fastest way to gain freedom is to smash people who don’t.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Good people drink good beer.

When things get weird, the weird turn pro.

Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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

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 was not proud of what I had learned, but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage and whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office and sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.

One of the interesting things about being a nerd is that you don’t have to waste any time trying to be cool…this is a good thing, but it can be dangerous if you get too caught in the idea that you’re a nerd and become a victim of all those who hate nerds…

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

It is a law in the arena of one-uppedness that a one-upper must be one-upped.

The continual masturbation of ideas and information, without putting them into action, can be a paralyzing force.

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

The difference between a professional photographer and an amateur photographer is that the professional photographer thinks a good picture is lucky.

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.