Thinking Quotes by Jack Kerouac

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

— Jack Kerouac

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'

— Jack Kerouac

With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore.

— Jack Kerouac

Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better.

— Jack Kerouac

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

— Jack Kerouac

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

— Jack Kerouac

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

— Jack Kerouac

I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

— Jack Kerouac

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it]…

— Jack Kerouac

Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks…

— Jack Kerouac

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’,…

— Jack Kerouac

...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be…

— Jack Kerouac

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could…

— Jack Kerouac

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep…

— Jack Kerouac

It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

— Jack Kerouac

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

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

— Jack Kerouac

But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto…

— 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

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

— Jack Kerouac

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism…

— 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

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and…

— Jack Kerouac

Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly…

— Jack Kerouac

“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

Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of…

— Jack Kerouac

I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

— Jack Kerouac

“But you can go on thinking and imagining forever further and stop at no decisions to pick up a bag for the…

— Jack Kerouac

They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how…

— Jack Kerouac

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to…

— Jack Kerouac

and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future…

— Jack Kerouac

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind…

— Jack Kerouac

Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When…

— Jack Kerouac

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but…

— Jack Kerouac

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact…

— Jack Kerouac

I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret…

— Jack Kerouac

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…

— Jack Kerouac

The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world,…

— Jack Kerouac

What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the…

— Jack Kerouac