Jack Kerouac Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

  "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, (Ch. 8), 1957.

• I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Song

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

• I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Feelings

• But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Lying, Princess

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin

• LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winter, Cities, Feelings

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

• At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Light, White

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

• Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Judging, Feelings

  "The portable Jack Kerouac".

• I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

  Jack Kerouac

  Years, Suffering And Death, Feelings

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin

• Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Feelings, Hiding

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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