Joy Quotes by Jack Kerouac

“How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?”

— Jack Kerouac

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

— Jack Kerouac

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

— Jack Kerouac

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is…

— Jack Kerouac

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an…

— Jack Kerouac

With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore.

— Jack Kerouac

Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or…

— Jack Kerouac

“Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth…

— Jack Kerouac

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad…

— Jack Kerouac

“Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness—everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).”

— Jack Kerouac

“Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in…

— Jack Kerouac

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

Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea, said Japhy. Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy,…

— Jack Kerouac

Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the…

— Jack Kerouac

I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not…

— Jack Kerouac

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing…

— Jack Kerouac

a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he…

— Jack Kerouac

“He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was…

— Jack Kerouac

“we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the…

— Jack Kerouac

“It was a joy, though, to get down into the valley and lose sight of all that open sky space underneath everything…

— Jack Kerouac

“Powerful winds that crack the boughs of November! - and the bright calm sun, untouched by the furies of the earth, abandoning…

— Jack Kerouac

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

— Jack Kerouac

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

— Jack Kerouac