Jack Kerouac: Trending quotes (page 6)

“As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.”

“You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday”

“Love is all.”

“What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.”

“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.”

“all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”

“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”

“The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me”

“It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”

“The silence was an intense roar.”

“and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?”

“Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'…
But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'
There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!”

“Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.”

“And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.”

“It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now”

“I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.”

“I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim…”

“my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.”

“I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.”