Gonzo Quotes:

Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

- Libba Bray

source: Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.313, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

topic: Sound, Gonzo, Gas

If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Country, Past, Air, Consecutive, Gonzo

As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a job? Options are limitless, but it will be good to have a plan. Use the high school senior quotes about life below to come up with ideas on what you want to make of yourself after high school. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Senior, Morning, Jobs, Life After High School, Morning Dew

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

source: FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

topic: Life, Death, Suicide, Worn Out, Kickass Women

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Suicide note, February 20, 2005.

topic: Suicide, Hurt, Fun, Gonzo, Suicide Note

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

topic: Vegas, Two, Drug, Tequila, Downers

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Humor, Rocks, Gonzo, Gonzo Journalism

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

- William Faulkner

topic: Fiction, Journalism, Newspapers, Gonzo, Gonzo Journalism

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

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Funny Life, Hands, Care, Take Care Of Me, Gonzo

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

topic: Gun, Two, America, Qualms, Qualms About

It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year.... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season...

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: "Fear and Loathing in Elko" by Hunter S. Thompson, www.rollingstone.com. January 23, 1992.

topic: Xmas, Children, Believe, Gonzo, Believe In Santa

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: "Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2003.

topic: Writing, Artist, Reality, Gonzo

Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get...

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Growing Up, Heart, Sunshine, Dio, Fast Car

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Country, War, Mistake, Rubble, Gonzo

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 26, 2014

topic: Men, Luxury, Fear And Loathing, Gonzo, Hells Angels

Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-à-vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Karma, Men, Law, Gonzo, Higher Law

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

- Ben Jonson

topic: Inspirational, Art, Fool, Martial Artist, Wise Counsel

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Fun, Pigs, Swine, Gonzo, Crippled

There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen — despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths...

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Heart, Fate, Boys, Different Paths, Gonzo

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.337, Pan Macmillan

topic: Karma, Men, Lord, Gonzo

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Littles, Serious, Said, Fear And Loathing, Gonzo

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Survival, Gonzo

I see light at the end of the tunnel.

- Walt Whitman Rostow

source: Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

topic: War, Tunnels, Light, Trippy, Staying Positive In Life

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Running, Men, America, Gonzo

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (1967). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, Ballantine Books

topic: Revenge, Distance, Feelings, Retaliation, Gonzo

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Long, Fear And Loathing, Gonzo

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

- Joan Rivers

source: Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

topic: Humor, Las Vegas, Tunnels, Slacker, Aerosmith

Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

topic: Honour You, Hands, Tables, Gonzo

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions, Gonzo, Hells Angels

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

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Letter, The Champion, July 1990

topic: Law, Perspective, Style, Life Style, Gonzo

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

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

topic: Running, Dog, Money, Hallways, Gonzo

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Stupid, Hell, Malcontent, Fear And Loathing, Gonzo

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Fate, Differences, Saws, Gonzo

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Art, Literature, Politics, Gonzo

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. 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

topic: Love, Hero, Reality, Legends And Myths, Living Proof

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

topic: Inspirational, Crazy, Epic, Over The Edge, Fear And Loathing

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 S. Thompson

topic: Past, Cells, Years, Prison Cells, Rio

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

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Drug, Desert, Fear And Loathing, Gonzo, Gonzo Journalism

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Thinking, Bullshit, Long, Fear And Loathing, Gonzo

Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested . . . Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 17, 2014

topic: Falling In Love, Fun, Real, Let The Good Times Roll, Demented

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Winning, Sparks, Madness, Fear And Loathing, Gonzo

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

- Gavin Rossdale

topic: Song, Writing, Dark, Gonzo

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. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 05, 2014

topic: People, Hunters, Gone, Over The Edge, Gonzo

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Vegas, Fear And Loathing, Gonzo, Binge

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

topic: Country, Vegas, Fear And Loathing, Dashboards, Off The Wall

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

source: Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Happiness, Believe, Positivity, Storms Of Life, Fear And Loathing

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Snow, Mountain, Leopards, Gonzo, Snow Leopards