Jack Kerouac Life Quotations

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

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

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

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.

Oh little Cody Pomeray if there had been some way to send a cry to you even when you were too little to know what utterances and cries are for in this dark sad earth, with your terrors in a world so malign and inhospitable, and all the insults from heaven ramming down to crowd your head with anger, pain, disgrace, worst of all the crapulous poverty in and out of every splintered door of days, if someone could have said to you then, and made you perceive, "Fear life, but don't die; you're alone, everybody's alone. Oh Cody Pomeray, you can't win, you can't lose, all is ephemeral, all is hurt.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

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

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

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.

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.

All of life is a foreign country.

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.

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...

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

My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

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.

Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

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

I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came

With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

Life is life, and kind is kind

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.