All Jack Kerouac Quotes
- What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't know," she said.… All
- The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk,… Air
- God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was… All
- One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. All
- Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed… Burgandy
- Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked… Actors
- It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out… Advancing
- As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk Concerned
- Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. Beware
- That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor. Life
- Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go. Go
- Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me. Along
- We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we… Across
- Life is life, and kind is kind Inspirational
- I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future. Across
- ...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it… Admit
- It is possible for the human spirit to win after all. All
- There are worse things than being mad. Inspirational
- In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely… All
- Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan? Feel
- If you own a rug you own too much. Inspirational
- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy Joy
- The unspeakable visions of the individual. Individual
- I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. Act
- I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were… Afternoon