Quote

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

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
Empty
Saws
Anything
Wanted
Existentialism
Life
Glowing
Vast
Page
Pages

More quotes by Jack Kerouac

Image
Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
Jack Kerouac
Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
Jack Kerouac
Image
There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.
Jack Kerouac
Image
It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
Jack Kerouac
Image
I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
Jack Kerouac
Image
the golden eternity is { }
Jack Kerouac
Image
Something that you feel will find its own form.
Jack Kerouac
Image
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.
Jack Kerouac
Image
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence
Jack Kerouac
Image
At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
Jack Kerouac
Image
equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
Jack Kerouac
Image
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
Jack Kerouac
Image
If you own a rug you own too much.
Jack Kerouac
Image
I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?
Jack Kerouac
Image
His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and Bull said, I like it because it's ugly. All his life was in that line.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.
Jack Kerouac