Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, Fear And Loathing, Hunters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.5, A&C Black

• If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Phoenix, Heaven, Facts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Angel, College, Years

• Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  War, Beer, Hell

• I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Angel, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

• I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Flying, Motorcycle

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• What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Party, Years, Trying

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.455, Simon and Schuster

• The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Angel, Police

  Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson “The Harley-Davidson Reader”

• Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Christian, Criminals, Finals

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.87, Vintage

• Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Soul, Bed

• Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Growing Up, Heart, Sunshine

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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