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.
JACK KEROUACWho knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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