“I sat cross-legged in the sand and contemplated my life. Well, there, and what difference did it make? "What's going to happen… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day… — 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
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short. — 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
“Hell! I’m glad I did it. It’s going to be a change. I call this life!” — 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
“Since life is a dream I think I'll stop eating and drinking so much--do some ethereal daydreaming instead--go in the mansion of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the… — 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
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He was out to get back everything he'd lost; there was no end to his loss; this thing would drag on forever.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“a choleric, red-faced, pudgy hater of everything, who could turn on the warmest and most charming smile in the world when real… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I wanta swim in rivers and drink goatmilk and talk with priests and just read Chinese books and amble around the valleys… — 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 then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time! — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious. ” — 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
