Quote

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

Hunter S. Thompson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Wired
Loathing
Trip
Survival
Gonzo

More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

Image
The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
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
Image
A word to the wise is infuriating.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
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.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
Hunter S. Thompson