Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.

Only I know my life.

They can say I have an opinion about something.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

You can only give someone your best opinion.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

Everything is personal.

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

I never try to guess what anyone else will take from a movie. Every movie is such a different experience for each and every person. I don't like it when people try telling people what they should take from a movie. You should go see it with fresh eyes and see for themselves.

As a man is, so he sees.

Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.

What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Everybody's entitled to their own experience.

As we are, so we see.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.