On-the-road Quote by Jack Kerouac Download Open image ““They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.”” — Jack Kerouac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare On-the-road
“But here, under the wide blue skies, the wind was the flood. Everyone drowned in it.” — Arthur Slade Copy Share Image
“I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.” — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“The sky and the sea invevitably meet and become one. Everywhere. Always.” — Takuji Ichikawa Copy Share Image
“They're endless, stretching beyond the horizon and spreading around me like forever. They heave and moan, frothing over each other, cresting and falling. The… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“Oh gods, are you listening? A storm out at sea is one of your greatest creations. You should hear it praised. The sky is… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
“I understand. There are rivers and tides everywhere, I suppose, real and otherwise. Their business is to carry along anyone who’s too weak to… — Lena Manta Copy Share Image
“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And in the flush of the first few days of joy I confidently tell myself (not expecting what I'll do in three weeks only)… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did:… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. This… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“When you’re on the road, you don’t really have to deal with real life. It’s almost like hitting the pause button.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our old favorite… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about Jack Kerouac,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image