Jack Kerouac Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Stars, Eye

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

• A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Memories, Mind

  Jack Kerouac (2006). “Book of Sketches”, p.65, Penguin

• The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Hipster, Crazy

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

• It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Forever, Vision

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

• Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Thinking, Vision

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

• One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -

  Jack Kerouac

  Spiritual, Moving, Book

• Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Vision, Would Be

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

• The unspeakable visions of the individual.

  Jack Kerouac

  Vision, Individual, Unspeakable

  Jack Kerouac (1993). “Visions of Cody”, p.389, Penguin

• I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, People, Childhood

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

• The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Vision, Facts

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

• The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

  Jack Kerouac

  Nice, Sleep, Vision

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.121, Penguin

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