Jack Kerouac Quotes

They build their own Hells.

It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.

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

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

There are worse things than being mad.

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

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

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

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

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.

Pretty girls make graves

...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo a thousand fondlings, revisings, moldings, addings, removings, graftings, tearings, correctings, smoothings, rebuildings, reconsiderings, nailings, tackings, chippings, hammerings, hoistings, connectings — all the poor fumbling uncertain incompletions of human endeavor. They went on forever and were forever incomplete, far from perfect, refined, or smooth, full of terrible memories of failure and fears of failure, yet, in the way of things, somehow noble, complete, and shining in the end.