Dharma Bums Quotes - Page 2

• Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Believe, Angel

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.239, Penguin

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• To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

  Jack Kerouac

  Children, Vapor, Innocent

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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• ...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Thinking, Bored

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.201, Penguin

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• The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Serenity, Tea

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

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• Forever and forever and forever

  Li Bai

  Forever

  Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”

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• Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Dog, Night, Journey

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• Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Mind, Creation

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.99, Penguin

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• Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Jumping, Boulders

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.65, Penguin

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