Night Quotes by Jack Kerouac

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.

— Jack Kerouac

“Lonely as America, a throatpierced sound in the night.”

— Jack Kerouac

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.

— Jack Kerouac

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read.

— Jack Kerouac

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

— Jack Kerouac

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

— Jack Kerouac

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

— Jack Kerouac

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

— Jack Kerouac

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

— Jack Kerouac

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This…

— Jack Kerouac

“It was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and…

— Jack Kerouac

On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet…

— Jack Kerouac

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This…

— Jack Kerouac

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America…

— Jack Kerouac

Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost -…

— Jack Kerouac

all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was…

— Jack Kerouac

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,…

— Jack Kerouac

The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree…

— Jack Kerouac

I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed…

— Jack Kerouac

At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman…

— Jack Kerouac

Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the…

— Jack Kerouac

The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the…

— Jack Kerouac

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of…

— Jack Kerouac

One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no…

— Jack Kerouac

“Now a door slams. The kids have rushed out for the last play, the mothers are planning and slamming in kitchens, you…

— Jack Kerouac

God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy…

— Jack Kerouac

And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath…

— Jack Kerouac

“And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show like fish,…

— Jack Kerouac

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

— Jack Kerouac

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl…

— Jack Kerouac

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing…

— Jack Kerouac

I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and…

— Jack Kerouac