World Quotes by Jack Kerouac

“The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go - right?”

— Jack Kerouac

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

— Jack Kerouac

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

— Jack Kerouac

Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.

— Jack Kerouac

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

— Jack Kerouac

Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.

— Jack Kerouac

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

— Jack Kerouac

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

— 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

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s…

— 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

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

— Jack Kerouac

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

— 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

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.

— Jack Kerouac

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

— Jack Kerouac

The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree…

— Jack Kerouac

We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is…

— Jack Kerouac

I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream…

— Jack Kerouac

The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from…

— Jack Kerouac

I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not…

— Jack Kerouac

Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us…

— 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

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing…

— Jack Kerouac

Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators…

— Jack Kerouac

I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,…

— Jack Kerouac

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have…

— Jack Kerouac

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use…

— 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

Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right…

— Jack Kerouac

Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys…

— Jack Kerouac

The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget.…

— Jack Kerouac

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

— Jack Kerouac

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

— Jack Kerouac

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

— Jack Kerouac

“it's all the same to me as long as it can be exciting and goes around the world.”

— Jack Kerouac

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

— Jack Kerouac

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

— Jack Kerouac

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

— Jack Kerouac

“What a horror it would have been if the world was real.”

— Jack Kerouac