Jack Kerouac Quotes about Life

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

Life, Wisdom, Writing

"Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Jack Kerouac

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

Jack Kerouac

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

Jack Kerouac

Life, Lying, Thinking

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

Jack Kerouac

Life, Giving Up, Yelling

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

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.

Jack Kerouac

Life, Running, Stars

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

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

Jack Kerouac

Life, Stars, Eye

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

All of life is a foreign country.

Jack Kerouac

Life, Country, Travel

1949 Letter, 24 Jun.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

Jack Kerouac

Life, World, Want

Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.

Jack Kerouac

Love, Life, Girl

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Jack Kerouac

Life, Girl, Wisdom

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

Jack Kerouac

Life, Stars, Philosophy