Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the… — 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
“And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Dammit that yodel of triumph of yours was the most beautiful thing I ever heard in my life. I wish I'd a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. — 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
..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Diamond Sutra says, 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor about the unrealness of existence," or words like that.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned… — 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
“She is giving me my life back and not claiming it for herself as so many of the women you love do… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I bless you, all living things, I bless you in the endless past, I bless you in the endless present, I bless… — 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
fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to… — 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
“Becoming acquainted and swallowing fears and settling down to life in the little cabin with its warm glow of woodstove and kerosene… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water,… — 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
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
“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 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'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
