You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
JACK KEROUACFinding Nirvana is like locating silence.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
-
-
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 -
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
JACK KEROUAC -
Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUAC -
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
JACK KEROUAC -
I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
JACK KEROUAC -
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
JACK KEROUAC -
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
JACK KEROUAC -
Something that you feel will find its own form.
JACK KEROUAC -
I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
JACK KEROUAC -
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 -
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
JACK KEROUAC -
The silence was an intense roar.
JACK KEROUAC -
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC -
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
JACK KEROUAC -
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
JACK KEROUAC






