Inspirational Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

— Jack Kerouac

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

— Jack Kerouac

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

— Jack Kerouac

Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.

— Jack Kerouac

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

— Jack Kerouac

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

— Jack Kerouac

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

— Jack Kerouac

Something good will come of all things yet

— Jack Kerouac

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be…

— Jack Kerouac

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'

— Jack Kerouac

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

— Jack Kerouac

Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better.

— Jack Kerouac

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

— Jack Kerouac

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

— Jack Kerouac

...wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.

— Jack Kerouac

There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

— Jack Kerouac

No matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

— Jack Kerouac

“Oh these dumb dumb dumb Okies, they'll never change, how com-pletely and how unbelievably dumb, the moment it comes time to act,…

— Jack Kerouac

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

— Jack Kerouac

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

— Jack Kerouac

I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

— Jack Kerouac

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,

— Jack Kerouac

Details are the Life of Prose.

— Jack Kerouac

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

— Jack Kerouac

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.

— Jack Kerouac

The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault,

— Jack Kerouac