Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

Everyone remembers the last thing you did.

When I got 'forever' tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever.

The 'Playboy' affiliation will probably stick for the rest of my life to some extent.

I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.

I don't want to be remembered for dunks, even though that will probably happen.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

What happens to you here is forever.

Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.