I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. — 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
An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“All life is but a skull-bone and A rack of ribs through which we keep passing food & fuel- just so's we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“You spend a whole life of non-interference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody bothers you and… — 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
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the world… — 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
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now, and the attacks… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there reminding me of the solemn… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“So even that marvelous, long remembrances of life all the time in the world to just sit there or lie there or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Sometimes during the night I'd look at my poor sleeping mother cruelly crucified there in the American night because of no-money, no-hope-of-money,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had… — 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