1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

and the stars were icicles of mockery

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

Accept loss forever. Be submissive to everything, open, listening. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge. Be in love with your life.

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

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore.

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

Will you love me in December as you do in May?