Quote

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

Jack Kerouac

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
First
Sweated
Something
Caressed
Time
Froze
Life
Touched
Weather
Became
Wisdom
Firsts

More quotes by Jack Kerouac

Image
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
Image
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
Jack Kerouac
Image
Down in Denver, all I did was die.
Jack Kerouac
Image
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
Jack Kerouac
Image
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'
Jack Kerouac
Image
The unspeakable visions of the individual.
Jack Kerouac
Image
...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
Image
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
Jack Kerouac
Image
It all ends in tears anyway.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Something that you feel will find its own form.
Jack Kerouac
Image
At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
Jack Kerouac
Image
And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
Jack Kerouac
Image
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)
Jack Kerouac
Image
Details are the Life of Prose.
Jack Kerouac
Image
The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.
Jack Kerouac
Image
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac
Image
and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
Jack Kerouac
Image
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
Jack Kerouac