Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

It's only pain, it will not hurt you.

She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."