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Jack Kerouac Quotes about Wisdom - Page 2

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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

Wisdom, Children, Stories

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

Wisdom, Yesterday, Littles

Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.65, Penguin

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Wisdom, Failure, Passion

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

Wisdom, Hands, Wheels

Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.166, Penguin

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

Wisdom, Sleep, Bed

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.123, Penguin

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.134, Penguin

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

Wisdom, Art, Powerful

Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.402, Library of America

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Wisdom, Aunt, Men

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

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Wisdom, Empathy, Faults

The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

Wisdom, Sky, Space

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Wisdom, Mind, Gorges

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

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

Wisdom, Drunk, Rooms

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.163, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

There are worse things than being mad.

Wisdom, Mad, Being Mad

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

Wisdom, Believe, Angel

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.239, Penguin

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

Wisdom, Fighting, Men

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

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.

Life, Girl, Wisdom

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

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

Girl, Wisdom, Want

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.156, Penguin

Houses are full of things that gather dust

Wisdom, Dust, House

If you own a rug you own too much.

Wisdom, Too Much, Ifs

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

Dream, Wisdom, Mind

Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.72, City Lights Books

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

Wisdom, Eye, Mad

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

Wisdom, Love Is, Long

Jack Kerouac (2016). “Old Angel Midnight”, p.8, City Lights Publishers

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

Wisdom, Hate, World

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.113, BookBaby

It all ends in tears anyway.

Wisdom, Tears, Ends

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.216, Penguin

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Wisdom, Book, Writing

Jack Kerouac (1993). “Visions of Cody”, p.354, Penguin

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