Quotes: Jack Kerouac
“The greatest pleasure in life is writing.”
Jack Kerouac
Quotes from The Town and the City
…who flit from city to city in search of something they hope to find and never even name… searching for some kind of resting place in their lives, which they never really want…
Jack Kerouac
The Town and the City
Quotes from On the Road
You don’t die enough to cry.
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic stricken.
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
…the only people for me, are the mad ones…
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
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-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
We had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
Quotes from The Subterraneans
For the greatest key to courage is shame.
Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans
…for greatness dies too…
Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans
…that the only thing that really mattered was love…
Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans
But all feelings are real…
Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans
…the details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out…
Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans
…yet I also like the rhythm of to dream, to wake…
Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans
…but angels know all and record it in books…
Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans