Jack Kerouac Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dog, Humility, Long

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

• 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

• I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me

  Jack Kerouac

  Strong, Thinking, Self

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

• Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Thinking, Sorrow

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

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