Want Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

— Jack Kerouac

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

— Jack Kerouac

ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you

— Jack Kerouac

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,

— Jack Kerouac

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

— Jack Kerouac

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

— Jack Kerouac

I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go…

— Jack Kerouac

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I…

— Jack Kerouac

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones…

— Jack Kerouac

You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to…

— Jack Kerouac

It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll…

— Jack Kerouac

Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what…

— Jack Kerouac

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and…

— Jack Kerouac

The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of…

— Jack Kerouac

I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost…

— Jack Kerouac

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you…

— Jack Kerouac

Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting…

— Jack Kerouac

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips…

— Jack Kerouac

What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?” She didn’t know. She yawned.…

— Jack Kerouac

Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of…

— Jack Kerouac

What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't…

— Jack Kerouac