Jack Kerouac: Quotes about love

“Will you love me in December as you do in May?”

“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.”

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again….”

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

“We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”

“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”

“Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?”

“We agreed to love each other madly.”

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Love is all.”

“I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.”

“I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”