“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
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy. — 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
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“But let a perpetual smile of peace and satisfaction On your lips Be a symbol of the decision To think happiness (equanimity)… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?” — 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 Image
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 Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — 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 He did:… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
