1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

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

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

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

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days...

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess--across the night...