Source: Big Sur (Annotated)
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Famous Jack Kerouac Quotes
“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.”
“Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.”
Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954
“While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light”
Source: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51
Source: Selected Letters, 1957-1969
“There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?”
Source: Big Sur (Annotated)
Source: Visions of Cody
Source: Lonesome Traveler
“At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.”
Source: Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)
Source: The Dharma Bums
“To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.”
Source: The Town and the City
Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
“I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.”
Source: Big Sur (Annotated)
Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac
“For life is holy and every moment is precious.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.”
Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956
Source: The Dharma Bums
“...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.”
Source: Safe in Heaven Dead: Interviews with Jack Kerouac
Source: The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.”
Source: La scrittura dell'eternità dorata
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.”
Source: On the Road
Source: Selected Letters, 1957-1969
Source: The Subterraneans
Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956
“Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.”
Source: Jack Kerouac: selected letters, 1940-1956
Source: Lonesome Traveler
Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac
“My life is a vast inconsequential epic.”
Source: Desolation Angels
Source: On the Road
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
Source: On the Road