“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“This can't go on all the time...all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.” — 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
..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
“Whatever anyone does,/ anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or… — 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
“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly… — 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
“The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“ It's the beat generation. It's the begát. It's the beat to keep. It's the beat in the heart. It's being beat… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach and which was the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writing about them everybody'll give up reading in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be… — 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
“I could hear and indescribable seething roar which wasn't which wasn't in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Here’s a guy and everybody’s there, right? Up to him to put down what’s on everybody’s mind. He starts the first chorus,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Now you just dig them in front. They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they are thinking about where to sleep tonight,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He's like a little boy again now for the first time in years because he's like let out of school, no job,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of… — 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
Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“i've no time To dally hassel In your heart's house, It's too gray I'm too cold- I wanta go to Golden, That's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
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
