“I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Because a new love affair always gives hope, the irrational mortal loneliness is always crowned, that thing I saw (that horror of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show like fish,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug--you shrug away the warm kiss” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“In winter darkness, the Baghdad Arabian keen blue deepness of the piercing lovely January winter's dusk--it used to tear my heart out,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“So I went up and there she was, the girl with the pure and innocent dear eyes that I had always searched… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“O wind, songs have ye in her name? Plucked her did ye from midnight blasted millyard winds and made her renown ring… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“She loved that man madly, but in a delirious way of some kind; there was never any mooching and mincing around, just… — 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
