All Jack Kerouac Quotes
- What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how? Any
- The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. Air
- Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do. Everyone
- I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own… Belief
- The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is… Admit
- It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet. Feet
- What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in… All
- As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. Became
- Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans,… Believe
- Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big… Big
- a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth Full
- I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference. Any
- The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick. Bent
- Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. Dream
- Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. Answer
- I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. Children
- Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain... Climb
- It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead… Across
- The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved… Anywhere
- I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like… Across
- I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and… All
- all day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head All
- But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and… Ahead
- and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old Anybody
- One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual… Ayahuasca