black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Jack Kerouac

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.
JACK KEROUAC

Death Give Up Holy Laughter Myself Promise World
Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUAC

Soul Wait Yourself
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
JACK KEROUAC

Dream Greatness Happiness Strange
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

Experience Health Hide Learning Life Man Solitude Strength True
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
JACK KEROUAC

Evidence Kindness Rest Yourself
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
JACK KEROUAC

People River Separate Start Yourself
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC

Confusion Myself Offering
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUAC

People Phone Poetry
Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
JACK KEROUAC

Drink Enjoyment Life
Who 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?
JACK KEROUAC

Compassionate Cruelty God Holy Personality Sea Universe
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

Choice Crazy Myself Right World
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
JACK KEROUAC

Art Dedication Dreams Myself Sleep Suffering
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
JACK KEROUAC

Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
JACK KEROUAC

Disappearance Hide Myself Night Run
Believe in the holy contour of life.
JACK KEROUAC

Believe Holy Life One Liner
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
JACK KEROUAC

Live Madness Myself People Save Talk

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jack Kerouac Quotes