Jack Kerouac Quotes

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

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 want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time — all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.

Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess...

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.