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“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“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.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“ISABEL: Sorry I missed my session Monday.

DR. RUSH: Would you like to tell me why?

ISABEL: I was depressed.

DR. RUSH: That's a good reason to come to therapy.”
― Lisa Lutz, Revenge of the Spellmans

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin

“Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
― Anais Nin

“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
― Anais Nin

“Fake sUCKs!”
― Toba Beta

“If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.”
― Chris Crutcher, Angry Management

“When life sucks, suck on a lemon; life'll seem a whole lot sweeter.”
― Kerrin Davidson

“Life's a drag. There is no gravity. Earth Sucks!”
― Scott Smith

“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
― Bob Marley

“How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.”
― Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), Meditations

“Life is short, have dessert first.”
― Joan Smith

“Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. ”
― David Brooks

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
― Gore Vidal

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
― ram dass

“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
― ram dass

“Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”
― ram dass

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
― ram dass