fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more". — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“She is giving me my life back and not claiming it for herself as so many of the women you love do… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Diamond Sutra says, 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor about the unrealness of existence," or words like that.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Becoming acquainted and swallowing fears and settling down to life in the little cabin with its warm glow of woodstove and kerosene… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I could have made my whole life like that morning just on the strength of pure understanding and willingness to live and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He would have had to roam the entire United States and look in every garbage pail from coast to coast before he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Everything was fine with the Zen Lunatics, the nut wagon was too far away to hear us. But there was a wisdom… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“It was a joy, though, to get down into the valley and lose sight of all that open sky space underneath everything… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Since life is a dream I think I'll stop eating and drinking so much--do some ethereal daydreaming instead--go in the mansion of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I wanta swim in rivers and drink goatmilk and talk with priests and just read Chinese books and amble around the valleys… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I sat cross-legged in the sand and contemplated my life. Well, there, and what difference did it make? "What's going to happen… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He is a believer in life and he wants to go to Heaven but because he loves life so he embraces it… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The old tree brooded over me silently, a living thing. I heard a mouse snoring in the garden weeds. The rooftops of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“„You know women,“ confided the fruitseller, „they love little cats... they always love the helpless things. But when it comes to men,… — 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
