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Jack Kerouac Quotes about Wisdom

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Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

Motivational, Wisdom, Travel

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Wisdom, Travel, Inspire

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.175, Penguin

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

Life, Wisdom, Writing

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

The beauty of things must be that they end.

Wisdom, Ends

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Tristessa (Annotated)”, p.9, BookBaby

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Wisdom, Travel, Stars

"On the Road".

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

Dream, Wisdom, Yoga

"Lonesome Traveler".

The only truth is music.

Music, Wisdom, Inspirational Music

Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Wisdom, Phones, People

Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

Wisdom, Pain, Real

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.96, Penguin

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Real

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.206, Penguin

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

Wisdom, Leaving, World

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

Wisdom, Stores

Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.22, Grove Press

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

Wisdom, Teacher, Views

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Wisdom, Men, Giving

Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.220, Library of America

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

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

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Wisdom, Silence, Dharma Bums

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

Wisdom, Race, Big Sur

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

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”

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

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

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

On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

Wisdom, Stars, Spring

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.170, BookBaby

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Wisdom, Want, Panic

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

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

Dream, Wisdom, Morning

Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.289, Penguin UK

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