1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'