All Jack Kerouac Quotes
- Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. Ahead
- The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along,… Along
- I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. Empty
- We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. Backs
- This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. America
- Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back America
- Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and… Ah
- I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for… Better
- Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried… All
- and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if… Amount
- Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you… All
- The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie. All
- I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in… Always Believed
- My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears. Eye
- It's only through form that we can realize emptiness Emptiness
- Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy Afraid
- colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of… Campus
- I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all All
- equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha Buddha
- The silence was an intense roar. Inspirational
- a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he… All
- Pain or love or danger makes you real again.... Danger
- Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall. All
- Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind,… Awake
- ...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean. Amuse