Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

To be alive at all involves some risk.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Living is risking.

One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.

I understand it's great to read a great book, but it's better to live your life. It just helps me. It's uncomfortable at times, but you have to live outside the circle.

If you don't take a risk, you will not be satisfied and happy. I think one must look at creating history.

I fear not living fully.

Live life to the fullest no matter what.

...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.

When we stop taking risks, we stop living.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

To live greatly, you have to risk greatly.

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

I can't believe I'm breathing and happy and thriving.

To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.