Dreams Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream

— Jack Kerouac

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

— Jack Kerouac

All human beings are also dream beings. Dream ties all humankind together.

— Jack Kerouac

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

— Jack Kerouac

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

— Jack Kerouac

“Nothing's alive for the universe is a dream already ended.”

— Jack Kerouac

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

— Jack Kerouac

“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind.”

— Jack Kerouac

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

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Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

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“Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror . . . and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful.”

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Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

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Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in…

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“Dreaming: the phantom of self-illusion emanating visions that change every night Living: the phantom of universal self-illusion emanating the huge vision of…

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A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a…

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I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with…

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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder…

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You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all…

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Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us…

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“When you feel depressed and you wanta go here, wanta go there, remember Mind Essence; the world, like dreams, will never come…

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It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like…

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“I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island,…

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“I wanted to put my hand to an enormous paean which would unify my vision of America with words spilled out in…

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In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside…

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“We also spent entire nights in bed and I told her my dreams. I told her about the big snake of the…

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“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old…

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“And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show like fish,…

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“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder…

— Jack Kerouac

“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me…

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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

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The unspeakable visions of the individual.

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“...the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams”

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“Memories and dreams are intermixed in this mad universe”

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“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…

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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my…

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You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full…

— Jack Kerouac