Jack Kerouac Quotes

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

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.

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who… burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

As you get older, you get more… genealogical.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize ‘The stars are words’ and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.

Avoid the world, it’s just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

I really hate to write.

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

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.