Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

We live as we dream - alone.

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

From birth to death we are alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

All human beings are lonely at the core. We come alone, we go alone.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

To love makes one solitary.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.