Quotes from Bill Hicks


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It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.


And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.


Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.


I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.


Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.


I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.


People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.


People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.


I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.


Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.


I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.


As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.


Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.


I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.


There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.


We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.


Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.


I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.


The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.


Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.