Jack Kerouac Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Motivational, Wisdom, Travel

• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.131, Grove Press

• Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mountain, Rays, Climbs

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.21, Penguin

• We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Land, America

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

• It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

  Jack Kerouac

  Feet, Mountain, Quiet

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.225, Penguin

• Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there since beginningless time. In fact I was afraid of those jagged monstrosities all around and over our heads. "They're so silent!" I said. "Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sitting there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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

• I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.

  Jack Kerouac

  Cute, Eye, Hair

• and silence is the golden mountain

  Jack Kerouac

  Silence, Mountain, Golden

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.71, Penguin

• Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sadness, Eye, Dark

  "On the Road".

• Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Mountain, Finals

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.86, Penguin

• And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.

  Jack Kerouac

  Air, Blue, Mountain

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

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