Truth Quote by Hunter S. Thompson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”

“If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”

“I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.”

“Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?”

“This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.”

“Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

“My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.”

“A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.”

“You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.”

“Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?”

“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.”