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Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 3

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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

Country, Night, Disappear

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.164, Penguin

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Writing, Giving, Genius

Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?

Wake Up, Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.199, Penguin

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

Dream, Silence, Attention

Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.57, City Lights Books

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

World, This World

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.101, Penguin

Something that you feel will find its own form.

Writing, Form, Feels

Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.218, Library of America

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

People, Bitterness, Fierce

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters”, p.33, Penguin

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Wisdom, Caring, Differences

Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Life, Running, Stars

Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

Wisdom, Eye, Tears

Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.92, Penguin

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

Stars, Crazy, Hands

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Wisdom, Silence, Dharma Bums

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

Compassion, Sea, Personality

Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.

Girl, Believe, Mean

I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

Wisdom, Race, Big Sur

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.133, BookBaby

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Life, Stars, Eye

Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

Dream, Wisdom, Song

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

Inspiration, Idols, Given

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Satori in Paris and Pic”, p.77, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

Wisdom, Giving Up, Yelling

Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

Dream, Night, Ties

Jack Kerouac (2001). “Book of Dreams”, p.15, City Lights Books

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

Delight, Rebellion

Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

Wisdom, Rich

Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

Soul, Firsts, Lips

Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.17, BookBaby

What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

Stars, Mean, Men

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.145, Penguin

So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

Dream, Wisdom, Art

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