Jack Kerouac Quote

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eye...

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and d...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus rem...

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

The world is a palace without bedsheets

Gloom and anguish is the description of the lives of those who live in darkness

Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning.

The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and conquest of beauty. It magnif...

The heart is delighted by the first,The other makes the mind go numb;Happiness and gloom like twins,Holding the hands together come!

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim a...