"I nudged myself closer to the ledge and……" — Jack Kerouac
"I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats."
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
Been Quotes
Born Quotes
Climbing Quotes
Closed Quotes
Closed My Eyes Quotes
Closer Quotes
Cute Quotes
Empty Quotes
Empty Space Quotes
End Quotes
Ends Quotes
Eye Quotes
Eyes Quotes
Famous Quotes
Famous Zen Quotes
First Quotes
First Place Quotes
Firsts Quotes
Flesh Quotes
Flesh Laid Quotes
Gentle Quotes
Get Quotes
Hair Quotes
Hair Stand Quotes
Horror Quotes
Horrors Quotes
Huge Quotes
Huge Mountains Quotes
I Remembered Quotes
Impossible Quotes
Keep Quotes
Keep Climbing Quotes
Laid Quotes
Ledge Quotes
Ledges Quotes
Life Quotes
Made Quotes
Mats Quotes
Mountain Quotes
Mountains Quotes
My Eyes Quotes
My Hair Quotes
Myself Closer Quotes
Nudged Quotes
Oh Quotes
Only Quotes
Our Poor Quotes
Out Quotes
Place Quotes
Poetry Quotes
Poor Quotes
Remembered Quotes
Rock Quotes
Rocks Quotes
Saying Quotes
Saying Made Quotes
Sitting Quotes
Space Quotes
Stand Quotes
Straw Quotes
Such Quotes
Thought Quotes
Thought Oh Quotes
Top Quotes
Why Quotes
You Get Quotes
Zen Quotes
Zen Saying Quotes