Jack Kerouac Quotes

Something that you feel will find its own form.

Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

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

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

There's wisdom in wine.

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

I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

The only truth is music.

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

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

You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

The beauty of things must be that they end.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light

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

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

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

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

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

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

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

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.