Jack Kerouac: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”

“But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.”

“It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.”

“Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”

“For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.”

“Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.”

“There are worse things than being mad.”

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

“Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.”

“Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.”

“And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.”

“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.”

“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.”

“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”

“… we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.”

“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”

“When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.”

“Pretty girls make graves.”

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.”