Jack Kerouac Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love, Life, Girl

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

• Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

  Jack Kerouac

  Talking, Joy, Soul

  "On the Road". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 5, 1957.

• Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

  Jack Kerouac

  Notebook, Joy, Secret

• The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Serenity, Tea

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

• I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Joy

• Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Mad, Joy

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

• The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Feels, Ups & Downs

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.98, BookBaby

• a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

  Jack Kerouac

  Disappointment, Drinking, Years

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.77, Penguin

• But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help. (p.111)

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.91, BookBaby

• And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ignorance, Joy, Sorrow

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, 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

• And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Thinking, Joy

  "The Portable Jack Kerouac".

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