1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it’s that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

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

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read” – Sal Paradise, On The Road.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.

And I saw how everybody dies and nobody’s going to care. I felt how it is to live just so you can die like a bull trapped in a screaming human ring.

I swore I’d be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn’t give a damn, just as long as I’d be in Chicago tomorrow.

Who doesn’t feel studious when he doesn’t have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I’d hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change.