The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads, but by those who remain true to their own unique vision.
There was nowhere to go but everywhere.
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered.
The road is life.
Accept loss forever.
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
There was so much to look at, to remember, to carry in our minds, since the world is made of infinite detail.
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
My witness is the empty sky.
The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
There are worse things than being alone, but it often takes decades to realize this.
I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt.
The only people for me are the mad ones.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
I’m writing a letter to you now ― before I get to Hungary and uproot the old world buildings from my mind.
Jack Kerouac Quotes part 2
I just won’t do anything I don’t want to do.
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
I don’t want to die in a car accident. When I die, it’ll be a glorious day. It’ll probably be a waterfall.
The bell tolls at midnight. Time marches on.
The one thing everybody’s looking for is unconditional love.
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
Be determined to belong to yourself, to live in your own mind, in your own world, not even to feel the existence or non-existence of any other things.
I realized I was in jail.
One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple.
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
When things get tough, just keep swimming.
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
Sometimes, the best therapy is a long drive and good music.
Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
The only truth is music.
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.
The only ones for me are the mad ones.
The closer you get to real matter, rock, air, fire, and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
The beauty of it all sounded like a symphony.
Why, I ask, can I not finish the novel I have begun, or for that matter, any other novel?
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