Jack Kerouac Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Sex, Real

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

• Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

  Jack Kerouac

  Talking, Joy, Soul

  "On the Road". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 5, 1957.

• Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

  Jack Kerouac

  Waiting, Soul, Too Much

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

• Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love, Dream, Cousin

  Jack Kerouac (2017). “Maggie Cassidy”, p.22, Penguin UK

• 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

• ...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Soul, Lovely

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

• I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.

  Jack Kerouac

  Jumping, Guy, Soul

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

• But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Expression, Worry, Soul

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

• ...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

  Jack Kerouac

  Soul, Mixing, Would Be

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

• She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

  Jack Kerouac

  Soul, Firsts, Lips

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.17, BookBaby

• But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Thinking, Blow

• -no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Dream, Spiritual

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.36, Grove Press

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