All Jack Kerouac Quotes
- ...wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter. All
- To the children and the innocent it's all the same. All
- Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They… All
- My shoes are clean from walking in the rain. Clean
- i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their… Blow
- ...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. Along
- because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling… Everywhere
- I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. America
- In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age. Age
- So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines. Des Moines
- They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. All
- A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a… Dream
- I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist… All
- Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields. Breeze
- It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now —… Accept
- I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I… All
- I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim... Hardship
- After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him. All
- Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified… All
- Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means… All
- and the stars were icicles of mockery Icicles
- Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain. Ah
- If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing? Dont
- Something that you feel will find its own form. Feel
- But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless… All