“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
“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 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
Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you — 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
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
“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
..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
“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
“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
“And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered to… — 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
“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
“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 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
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
...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
“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
“That Rollo Greb is the greatest, most wonderful of all. That's what I was trying to tell you - that's what I… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you… — 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