Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

The unknown is always frightening.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

I don't watch the news because I wouldn't leave the house. I would not leave the house.