All Jack Kerouac Quotes
- I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars. Crazy
- It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false. Best
- There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go. Anymore
- I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones? All
- She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic,… Began
- Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live… Broken
- ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you Ah
- I felt free and therefore I was free. Felt
- It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So,… All
- Be in love with your life, every detail of it. Birthday
- The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. Ecstasy
- You guys are going somewhere or just going? Funny
- I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted… Call
- But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for… All
- Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful… Abstractions
- And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin… Anguish
- I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very… Acts
- Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub. Independent
- If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong. Inspirational
- Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better. Better
- Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem. Autumn
- My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. Abominable
- Accept loss forever. Accept
- ...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of… Campus
- Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea, said Japhy. Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is… Book