It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
"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
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. — 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
Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom… — 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
On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet… — 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
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
The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk — 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
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
