Jack Kerouac Quotes

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

But I should have known from her original announcement of independence to believe in the sincerity of her distaste for involvement, instead hurling on at her as if and because in fact I wanted to be h...

Cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

Everybody saying O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that, how do you know he doesnt hate what He did: He might even be drunk and not noticing what he went and done

My karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

Now this warm thought of greatness is a big chill in the wind—for

في النهاية.المُتشرد لديه سبب للبكاء,كل شيئ في هذا العالم مُوجه ضده._فجأةَ بدأت إدرك أن الجميع في أمريكا لصوص بالفطرة._والنجوم كانت نُدف ثلج زائفة._لقد إتفقنا أن يُحب كلٌ من الأخر بجنون._لأن العالم بلي...

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Notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

All life is but a skull-bone andA rack of ribs through whichwe keep passing food & fuel

All that hitchhikinAll that railroadinAll that comin backto America

And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.

And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered to the cable-car stop; in a moment rolled down the hill with our legs dangling to the sidewalk from the j...

And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going t...

But no matter, the road is life.

But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of sufferin...