“Hell! I’m glad I did it. It’s going to be a change. I call this life!” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He was out to get back everything he'd lost; there was no end to his loss; this thing would drag on forever.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“It seems to me now that my life is writing, be it only words without meaning...When I am 33 I shall put… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Dammit, that yodel of triumph of yours was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life. I wish I had… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“You spend a whole life of non-interference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody bothers you and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“... this girl I was SEEKING to get involved with as if not enough trouble already or other old romances hadn't taught… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Sometimes during the night I'd look at my poor sleeping mother cruelly crucified there in the American night because of no-money, no-hope-of-money,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there reminding me of the solemn… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Why did God make all this all so decayable and dieable and harmable and wants to make me realize and scream?” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I bless you, all living things, I bless you in the endless past, I bless you in the endless present, I bless… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious. ” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“And in the flush of the first few days of joy I confidently tell myself (not expecting what I'll do in three weeks only)… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did:… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“The hot water pools are steaming, Fagan and Monsanto and the others are all sitting peacefully up to their necks, they're all naked, but… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
