Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
JACK KEROUACLife must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
-
-
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
JACK KEROUAC -
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
JACK KEROUAC -
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUAC -
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
JACK KEROUAC -
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
JACK KEROUAC -
All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC -
It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
JACK KEROUAC -
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
JACK KEROUAC -
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
JACK KEROUAC -
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
JACK KEROUAC -
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
JACK KEROUAC -
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
JACK KEROUAC -
I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
JACK KEROUAC -
On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
JACK KEROUAC -
A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
JACK KEROUAC