All Jack Kerouac Quotes
- You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go. Go
- And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words. Far
- LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities. American
- I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when… All
- Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour. Hour
- I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of… Age
- I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless… Beseeching
- Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything Kind
- I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are… Action
- No matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts. Always Learn
- You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration Equal
- The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together. All
- Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've… Blowing
- Eager for bread and love. Age
- Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to… Age
- He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence Compulsive
- All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who… All
- Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end… All
- ...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes… Bespeaking
- I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in… All
- And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to… Air
- The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault, All
- At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as… Across
- I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want… Anything Else
- Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad… Abroad