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Mind Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to…
- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,
- Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
- Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that…
- don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in…
- And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological…
- 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…
- As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
- Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
- Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
- 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,…
- Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
- How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your…
- Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one…
- In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab…
- Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle