Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.
Jack Kerouac
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Dream
Across
America
Follow
Ideas
Line
Great
Instead
Screwed
Trying
Stupid
Routes
Would
Lines
Roads
Wonderful
Red
Idea
Various
More quotes by Jack Kerouac
You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
Jack Kerouac
Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
Jack Kerouac
Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
Jack Kerouac
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
Jack Kerouac
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
Jack Kerouac
An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else
Jack Kerouac
Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.
Jack Kerouac
Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
Jack Kerouac
It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
Jack Kerouac
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures? was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.
Jack Kerouac
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
Jack Kerouac
Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
Jack Kerouac
You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER
Jack Kerouac
I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.
Jack Kerouac
Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
Jack Kerouac
No time for poetry but exactly what is.
Jack Kerouac
It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
Jack Kerouac
Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.
Jack Kerouac
Life is life, and kind is kind
Jack Kerouac
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
Jack Kerouac
