Top 500 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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2. “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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3. “Anything worth doing is worth doing well.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

4. “Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Featured in: Risk-Taking Quotes

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

Featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Adventure Quotes

6. “Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

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8. “Too weird to live, too rare to die!”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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9. “Life is beautiful and living is pain.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

10. “Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Featured in: Life Is Short Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Fun Quotes, Weekend Quotes

11. “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

12. “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

Featured in: Journey Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Grit Quotes

13. “You can’t miss what you never had.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

14. “Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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15. “There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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16. “Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

17. “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Featured in: Crazy Quotes

18. “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow what a ride!”

— Hunter S. Thompson

19. “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

20. “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.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Demotivational Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Romance Quotes

21. “Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

22. “Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

23. “Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

24. “There is no story unless you’ve written it.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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25. “On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

26. “The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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27. “Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

28. “Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

29. “As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

30. “I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

32. “It never got weird enough for me.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

33. “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.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Featured in: Quotes About Memories

34. “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.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Featured in: Thought Provoking Quotes

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

36. “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

37. “If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don’t have to worry about the answers.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

39. “It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

40. “Kill the body and the head will die.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

41. “Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I’d probably miss if I stayed straight.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

42. “I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

44. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

45. “There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says ‘Good people drink good beer.’ Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

46. “Good people drink good beer.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

47. “We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

48. “As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

49. “Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”

— Hunter S. Thompson

50. “The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.”

— Hunter S. Thompson