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
“O love, fled me - or do telepathies cross sympathetically in the night?” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Some people have vibrations that come straight from the vibrating heart of the sun, unjaded...” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“She loved that man madly, but in a delirious way of some kind; there was never any mooching and mincing around, just… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of… — 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
Accept loss forever. Be submissive to everything, open, listening. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“So I went up and there she was, the girl with the pure and innocent dear eyes that I had always searched… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Japhy,' I said out loud, 'I don't know when we'll meet again or what'll happen in the future, but Desolation, Desolation, I… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Because a new love affair always gives hope, the irrational mortal loneliness is always crowned, that thing I saw (that horror of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show like fish,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“O wind, songs have ye in her name? Plucked her did ye from midnight blasted millyard winds and made her renown ring… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug--you shrug away the warm kiss” — 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
