1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, "Perché?" E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente.

Where the stars nodded on trees

The vast diamond silence of the forest

If you own a rug you own too much.

The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.

There ain’t no such thing as lumberjack, that must be a Back East expression. Up here we call ‘em loggers.

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.

What's Your Road, Man?