Jack Kerouac Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

• All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hate, Pride, Soul

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

• I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

  Jack Kerouac

  Pride, Soul, Looks

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.219, Penguin

• I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

  Jack Kerouac

  Pride, Men, Skeletons

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