Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Life is not what you expected it to be.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

There is nothing perfect...only life.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.