I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing. — 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
“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
“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
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. — 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
“How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me,… — 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
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 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
“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
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
“Dammit, that yodel of triumph of yours was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life. I wish I had… — 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
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
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 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 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
“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
“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
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
...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — 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
“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
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor. — 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
“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
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious. ” — 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
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a… — 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
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
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“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
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“The hot water pools are steaming, Fagan and Monsanto and the others are all sitting peacefully up to their necks, they're all naked, but… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
