Jack Kerouac Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Mean, Men

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.145, Penguin

• What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Men, Differences

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

• I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Would Be, Earth

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.79, Penguin

• I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hangover, Mean, People

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

• Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Thinking, Sorrow

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

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