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
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and… — 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
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. — 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 have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is… — 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
“The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.” — 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
“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 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
“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“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
“He would have had to roam the entire United States and look in every garbage pail from coast to coast before he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't… — 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
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Why did God make all this all so decayable and dieable and harmable and wants to make me realize and scream?” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I could have made my whole life like that morning just on the strength of pure understanding and willingness to live and… — 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
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
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“„You know women,“ confided the fruitseller, „they love little cats... they always love the helpless things. But when it comes to men,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“In a sense, I'm mad (and withdrawn from life) while they're sane, human, normal - but in another sense, I speak from… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. Get to San… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like… — 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
