Top 15 Jack Kerouac Quotes

[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!

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

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

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

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.

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

The only truth is music.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

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

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.

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.

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

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

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream

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