Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.

He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

I am worn to a raveling.

Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.

Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.

I found that life has to be edited to continue.

Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

If hurts were hairs, we'd all look like grizzlies.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

I don't know how the heart withstands it.

Hold on...Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.