"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time! — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams. — 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
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Whatever anyone does,/ anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)” — 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
“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
“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and… — 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
“The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“ It's the beat generation. It's the begát. It's the beat to keep. It's the beat in the heart. It's being beat… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he… — 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
“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach and which was the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I wanted to go and get Ruth again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this… — 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
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I could hear and indescribable seething roar which wasn't which wasn't in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Here’s a guy and everybody’s there, right? Up to him to put down what’s on everybody’s mind. He starts the first chorus,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Now you just dig them in front. They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they are thinking about where to sleep tonight,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He's like a little boy again now for the first time in years because he's like let out of school, no job,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending… — 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
“This can't go on all the time...all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.” — 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'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
![“...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.” quote by Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/059/jack-kerouac-182_age_the-photographer-can-be-considered-a-kin_2386879.jpg)
