Jack KerouacI 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 … ▶371LifeReading
Jack KerouacI realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for … ▶361DeathLifeTime
Jack Kerouacand the stars were icicles of mockery ✨ Jack Kerouac (1986). The Dharma Bums, p.48, Penguin361Life
Jack KerouacWhat is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?” She didn’t know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. I… ▶362Love
Jack KerouacThe 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 me373Thought
Jack KerouacRoaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1960). The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets N… ▶351ReadingThought
Jack Kerouaci wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway. ✨ Jack K… ▶341Death
Jack KerouacThe Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated… ▶374Sadness
Jack KerouacI 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… ▶341DeathLifeLove
Jack KerouacWe fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night. 374Love
Jack KerouacOne man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1986). The Dharma Bums, p.134, Penguin374Humor
Jack KerouacOne day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ✨ Some of the Dharma. Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.352Reading
Jack KerouacI think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta. ✨ The Dharma Bums.341LoveThought
Jack KerouacI suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.… ▶331Hope
Jack KerouacPrison is where you promise yourself the right to live. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.217, Penguin353Life
Jack KerouacThe human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1986). The Dharma Bums, p.146, Penguin331Humanity
Jack KerouacThe words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work… ▶364Reflection
Jack KerouacWhen the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying:… ▶375Sadness
Jack KerouacDown on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, God, I love you and looked to the sky and really meant it. I have fallen in love with you, God. Take car… ▶353LoveReflection
Jack KerouacBe in love with your life, every detail of it. ✨ Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). Selected letters, 1940-1956, Penguin Paperbacks342LifeLove
Jack KerouacHe had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a… ▶364LifeSadness
Jack KerouacThe dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2016). Old Angel Midnight, p.6, City Lights Publishers342Reading
Jack KerouacI'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.375Reading
Jack KerouacAnd I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1995). Desolation Angels, Riverhead Trade … ▶342DeathTime
Jack KerouacBe crazy dumbsaint of the mind. ✨ Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). Selected letters, 1940-1956, Penguin Paperbacks342Thought
Jack KerouacHere I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Ed… ▶321Reflection
Jack KerouacAnd then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time! ✨ Jack Kerouac (1976). On the Road, p.92, Penguin365LifeTime
Jack KerouacIn my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2013). Book of Haikus, p.30, Penguin376DeathReading
Jack KerouacI took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1995). The Portable Jack… ▶354Truth
Jack KerouacIf 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 … ▶343Reflection
