The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
JACK KEROUACWhile looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
-
-
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
JACK KEROUAC -
Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
JACK KEROUAC -
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
JACK KEROUAC -
I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
JACK KEROUAC -
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?
JACK KEROUAC -
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
JACK KEROUAC -
Something that you feel will find its own form.
JACK KEROUAC -
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
JACK KEROUAC -
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.
JACK KEROUAC -
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
JACK KEROUAC -
You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
JACK KEROUAC -
Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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 -
You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
JACK KEROUAC -
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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 -
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
JACK KEROUAC -
The only truth is music.
JACK KEROUAC -
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
JACK KEROUAC -
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 -
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 -
The beauty of things must be that they end.
JACK KEROUAC -
While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
JACK KEROUAC -
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC -
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
JACK KEROUAC