Jack Kerouac Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Silence, Dharma Bums

• Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Silence, Attention

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.57, City Lights Books

• Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful love. I gloated over her. Our stories were told; we subsided into silence and sweet anticipatory thoughts. It was as simple as that. You could have all your Peaches and Bettys and Marylous and Ritas and Camilles and Inezes in this world; this was my girl and my kind of girlsoul, and I told her that.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Girl, Sweet

• The silence was an intense roar.

  Jack Kerouac

  Silence, Intense

  Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, James Baldwin, James Purdy (1962). “Some postwar American writers”

• 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”

• and silence is the golden mountain

  Jack Kerouac

  Silence, Mountain, Golden

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

• How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mad, Silence, Mind

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.74, Grove Press

• The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stress, Blood, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

• God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  New York, Night, Thinking

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

• I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Teaching, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

• Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books - Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself - The shelves pile higher - They're full of misty documents or documents of the Mist-.

  Jack Kerouac

  Book, Years, Play

• In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, It is all one vast awakened thing. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Essence, Ideas

• listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

  Jack Kerouac

  Silence, World, Lessons

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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