Loathing Quotes - Page 3

• The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

  Shirley Manson

  Self, Truth Is, Terrible

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ideas, Addiction, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie”, p.1, Ballantine Books

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• With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Epic, Race, Modern Journalism

  "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

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• I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Taken, Hands

  "The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.

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• But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Character, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Long, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Religious, Exercise, People

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “Autobiography. Memoir. The Christian ministry”, p.137

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• In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fear And Loathing, World, Finding Peace

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.489, Pan Macmillan

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• There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Addiction, Fear And Loathing

  "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream".

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• 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

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

  Marie Chapian

  Women, Frustration, Self

  Marie Chapian (1997). “A Confident, Dynamic You: Ten Keys to Moving from I Can't to I Can”, Vine Books

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• Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all, the cream of the national sporting press.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Coffee, Night

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• Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, People, Psychology

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.90, Vintage

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• When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Music, Sports, Hunting

  Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1972)

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• There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills, blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - the mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can’t control it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Loss, Men, Skills

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• I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

  Michael C. Hall

  Thinking, Self, Shame

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• 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

  Happiness, Believe, Positivity

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Courage, Fear, Brave Face

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.124, Shambhala Publications

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• Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Editors, Rejection

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• 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

  Vegas, Two, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

  Ezra Pound

  Sound, Gang, Instinct

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• And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Military, Mean

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1998.

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• The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Race, Kentucky

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.36, Vintage

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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