Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

I think one of the joys of disaster movies is not knowing who's going to live and who's going to die.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

Chance, choice, and consequence are fundamental parts of existence and perfect fodder for a horror story - or any story, for that matter, that asks, 'How do you live through this? How does anyone live through this?'

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

There's only so much you can control in life.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.