The Best Jack Kerouac quotes

Will you love me in December as you do in May? — Jack Kerouac

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do. — Jack Kerouac

We agreed to love each other madly. — Jack Kerouac

Be in love with your life, every detail of it. — Jack Kerouac

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves. — Jack Kerouac

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I’m a wretch. But I love, love. — Jack Kerouac

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow–hate’s so easy compared. — Jack Kerouac

Pain or love or danger makes you real again…. — Jack Kerouac

Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. — Jack Kerouac

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off. — Jack Kerouac

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. — Jack Kerouac

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. — Jack Kerouac

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. — Jack Kerouac

What difference does it make after all?––anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind. — Jack Kerouac

How clear the realization one is going mad–the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract. — Jack Kerouac

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. — Jack Kerouac

Being crazy is the least of my worries. — Jack Kerouac

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301). — Jack Kerouac

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. — Jack Kerouac

Go moan for man. It’s the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream. — Jack Kerouac

The dream is already ended and we’re already awake in the golden eternity. — Jack Kerouac

Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror… and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful. — Jack Kerouac

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true. — 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

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. — Jack Kerouac

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

The fact was i had The vision… i think everyone has… what we lack is The method. — Jack Kerouac

The road must eventually lead to the whole world. — Jack Kerouac

We all must admit that everything is fine and there’s no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we’re not REALLY worried about ANYTHING. — Jack Kerouac

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together. — Jack Kerouac

Avoid the world, it’s just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. — Jack Kerouac

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. — Jack Kerouac

I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. — Jack Kerouac

Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live. — Jack Kerouac

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. — Jack Kerouac

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. — Jack Kerouac

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness. — Jack Kerouac

I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all. — Jack Kerouac

I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too–big world of ours. — Jack Kerouac

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me. — Jack Kerouac

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night. — Jack Kerouac

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? — Jack Kerouac

On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars–Something good will come out of all things yet–And it will be golden and eternal just like that–There’s no need to say another word. — Jack Kerouac

And when the fog’s over and the stars and the moon come out at night it’ll be a beautiful sight. — Jack Kerouac

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine–drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing. — Jack Kerouac

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. — Jack Kerouac

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars. — Jack Kerouac

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars… — 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

I like too many things and get all confused and hung–up running from one falling star to another til I drop. — Jack Kerouac

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams. — Jack Kerouac

No matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad. — Jack Kerouac

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

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

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad. — Jack Kerouac

They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there–and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see. — Jack Kerouac

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. — 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

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. — Jack Kerouac