Jack Kerouac Quotes

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

We agreed to love each other madly.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

There are worse things than being mad.

You guys are going somewhere or just going?

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go.

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Life is life, and kind is kind

I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

Details are the Life of Prose.

We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.

Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.

The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

the golden eternity is { }

Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

Is Virgin you trying to fathom me

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

The silence was an intense roar.

ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you

The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.

They build their own Hells.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'

Bein Crazy is the least of my worries.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

stick at it like a benni addict

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.