Quotes by Jack Kerouac

“Its a sort of furtiveness Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge theres no use flaunting on that level, the level of the public, a kind of beatness I mean, being ...”

“Love is bitter, death is sweet.”

“They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a...”

“the golden eternity is { }”

“Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe...”

“Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!”

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

“And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles following me on the road across America, and my mother with a pack on her back, and my father runnin...”

“When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.”

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

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.”

“I'd rather be thin than famousbut I'm fatpaste that in your broadway show”

“And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!”

“Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter wh...”

“We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the ...”

“Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.”

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

“They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-"Where are you going?" which is precisely what they asked me a year la...”

“Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy ”

“A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search fo...”