Jack Kerouac Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

• Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Wisdom, Writing

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Lying, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• All of life is a foreign country.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Country, Travel

  1949 Letter, 24 Jun.

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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

• 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

• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Girl, Wisdom

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

• Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Stars, Eye

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

• I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Stars, Philosophy

• I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Running, Stars

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

• 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

  Life, World, Want

• I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

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  Life, Giving Up, Yelling

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