Kerouac Quotes

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.

Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.

The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.

Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

and the stars were icicles of mockery