Quotes of Jack Kerouac - somelinesforyou

“ This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Pain or love or danger makes you real again. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ The only truth is music. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Some people are so poor, all they have is money. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Houses are full of things that gather dust. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ All of life is a foreign country. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Here I was at the end of America…no more land…and nowhere was nowhere to go but back. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream. ”

- Jack Kerouac
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