--- title: "21 Realizing Quotes By Jack Kerouac" description: "21 Realizing quotes by Jack Kerouac. Plus more from Jack Kerouac and more Realizing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a18/jack-kerouac-182_heaven_practice-kindness-all-day-to-everybody-a_2240318.jpg" --- > [Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/practice-kindness-all-day-to-everybody-and-you-will-realize-you-re/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a18/jack-kerouac-182_heaven_practice-kindness-all-day-to-everybody-a_2240318.jpg) > [It's only through form that we can realize emptiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/it-s-only-through-form-that-we-can-realize-emptiness/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6df/jack-kerouac-182_emptiness_it-s-only-through-form-that-we-can-reali_2054583.jpg) > [With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/with-joy-realize-for-the-first-time-thinking-just-not-thinking-so-i/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6f/jack-kerouac-182_first-time_with-joy-realize-for-the-first-time-thin_835682.jpg) > [Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/happiness-consists-in-realizing-it-is-all-a-great-strange-dream/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/jack-kerouac-182_dream_happiness-consists-in-realizing-it-is-al_2809862.jpg) > [I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-suddenly-began-to-realize-that-everybody-in-america-is-a-natural/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bc/jack-kerouac-182_america_i-suddenly-began-to-realize-that-everybo_1990709.jpg) > [The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/the-happiness-consists-in-realizing-that-it-is-all-a-great-strange/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/jack-kerouac-182_dream_the-happiness-consists-in-realizing-that_1493485.jpg) > [Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/cats-yawn-because-they-realize-that-there-s-nothing-to-do/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d3/jack-kerouac-182_cat_cats-yawn-because-they-realize-that-ther_1044025.jpg) > [And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/and-with-joy-you-realize-for-the-first-time-thinking-s-just-like-not/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebc/jack-kerouac-182_first-time_and-with-joy-you-realize-for-the-first-t_264668.jpg) > [...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/we-all-must-admit-that-everything-is-fine-and-there-s-no-need-in-the/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/jack-kerouac-182_facts_we-all-must-admit-that-everything-is-fin_1421329.jpg) > [Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/ah-if-i-could-realize-if-i-could-forget-myself-and-devote-my/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84d/jack-kerouac-182_awakening_ah-if-i-could-realize-if-i-could-forget_211501.jpg) > [Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/parade-my-trouble-in-front-of-you-guys-make-you-realize-that-my-heart/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5f/jack-kerouac-182_broken_parade-my-trouble-in-front-of-you-guys-m_3069881.jpg) > [Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/some-of-my-most-neurotically-fierce-bitterness-is-the-result-of/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/717/jack-kerouac-182_anger_some-of-my-most-neurotically-fierce-bitt_3227937.jpg) > [Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/everything-is-perfect-on-the-street-again-the-world-is-permeated-with/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b84/jack-kerouac-182_dream_everything-is-perfect-on-the-street-agai_850629.jpg) > [Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/way-far-back-in-the-beginning-of-the-world-was-the-whirlwind-warning/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/jack-kerouac-182_blown-away_way-far-back-in-the-beginning-of-the-wor_2156017.jpg) > [And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/and-i-realize-the-unbearable-anguish-of-insanity-how-uninformed-2/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/190/jack-kerouac-182_anguish_and-i-realize-the-unbearable-anguish-of_2361029.jpg) > [Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/somebody-had-tipped-the-american-continent-like-a-pinball-machine-and/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c7/jack-kerouac-182_computers_somebody-had-tipped-the-american-contine_760529.jpg) > [You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/you-don-t-realize-what-a-strain-it-is-on-the-nerves-to-write-or-think/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/jack-kerouac-182_anxiety_you-don-t-realize-what-a-strain-it-is-on_592989.jpg) > [One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/one-fast-move-or-i-m-gone-i-realize-gone-the-way-of-the-last-three/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa0/jack-kerouac-182_ayahuasca_one-fast-move-or-i-m-gone-i-realize-gone_1792196.jpg) > [Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/thinking-of-the-stars-night-after-night-i-begin-to-realize-the-stars/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/jack-kerouac-182_astronomy_thinking-of-the-stars-night-after-night_730023.jpg) > [Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/mankind-will-someday-realize-that-we-are-actually-in-contact-with-the/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc1/jack-kerouac-182_able_mankind-will-someday-realize-that-we-are_2207283.jpg) > [The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/the-world-you-see-is-just-a-movie-in-your-mind-rocks-dont-see-it/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/293/jack-kerouac-182_being-cool_the-world-you-see-is-just-a-movie-in-you_1302073.jpg) ## Other authors on Realizing ## More by Jack Kerouac > [Bein Crazy is the least of my worries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/bein-crazy-is-the-least-of-my-worries/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-m-catholic-and-i-can-t-commit-suicide-but-i-plan-to-drink-myself-to/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/the-beat-generation-that-was-a-vision-that-we-had-john-clellon-holmes/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/but-outside-of-being-a-sweet-little-girl-she-was-awfully-dumb-and/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/for-when-you-realized-that-god-is-everything-you-know-that-you-ve-got/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-m-an-idealist-who-has-outgrown-my-idealism-i-have-nothing-to-do-the/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [“Most of them were running away from something―usually the law.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/most-of-them-were-running-away-from-something-usually-the-law/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [“Non lo so, non importa e non fa nessuna differenza.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/non-lo-so-non-importa-e-non-fa-nessuna-differenza/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [“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)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/and-in-the-flush-of-the-first-few-days-of-joy-i-confidently-tell/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-want-a-blaze-of-light-to-flame-in-me-forever-in-a-timeless-dear/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/for-the-next-week-that-was-all-i-heard-manana-a-lovely-word-and-one/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [“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:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/o-how-wonderful-life-is-how-miraculous-god-made-this-and-god-made/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/notoriety-and-public-confession-in-the-literary-form-is-a-frazzler-of/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-promise-i-shall-never-give-up-and-that-i-ll-die-yelling-laughing/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/the-hot-water-pools-are-steaming-fagan-and-monsanto-and-the-others/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/realizing/jack-kerouac/#itemlist", "name": "21 Realizing Quotes By Jack Kerouac", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": 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