Jack Kerouac idézet

„Az egyetlen igazság a zene.”

„A legjobb tanár a tapasztalat és nem valaki eltorzult szempontja.”

„Nagy dolgokat nem azok érnek el, akik a trendeket, divatot és a közvéleményt követik.”

„Meglepett, mint mindig, hogy milyen könnyű volt a távozás, és milyen jó érzés volt. A világ hirtelen tele volt lehetőségekkel.”

„Nem mehetsz sehova, de mindenhova, ezért csak sétálj a csillagok alatt.”

„Mindig büszke vagyok rá, hogy valamilyen módon szeretem a világot - a gyűlölet annyira egyszerű.”

„A hibám, a kudarcom, nem a szenvedélyem, hanem az, hogy nem tudom magam vissza fogni.”

„Tanúm az üres ég.”

„Ne használd a telefont. Az emberek soha nem veszik fel - használj költészetet.”

„Ne ítélj semmit, boldog leszel. Bocsáss meg mindent, boldogabb leszel. Szeress mindent, akkor leszel a legboldogabb.”

„Fájdalom hasított a szívembe, mint minden alkalommal, amikor megláttam egy lányt, akit szerettem, és aki az ellenkező irányba ment ebben a túl nagy világban.”

„A boldogság abban áll, hogy felismerjük, hogy az egész egy nagy, furcsa álom.”

„Dean Moriartyra gondolok, még az öreg Dean Moriartyra is, az apára, akit soha nem találtunk meg, gondolok Dean Moriartyra.”

„Decemberben is úgy fogsz szeretni, mint májusban?”

„Úgyis minden sírással végződik.”

„Hozzámegyek a regényeimhez, és kis novellák lesznek a gyerekeim.”

„Nem tudom, nem érdekel, és nem is számít.”

„Mi vár rám abban az irányban, amelyet nem választok?”

„Hamarosan megtalálom a megfelelő szavakat, nagyon egyszerűek lesznek.”

„Mert a végén nem fogsz emlékezni arra az időre, amit az irodában töltöttél, vagy a fűnyírásra szántál. Mássz fel arra az istenverte hegyre.”

„A levegő lágy volt, a csillagok olyan szépek, minden macskaköves sikátor ígérete olyan nagyszerű, hogy azt hittem, álmodom.”

„Ütött-kopott bőröndjeink ismét a járdán halmozódtak; hosszabb út állt előttünk. De nem számít, az út az élet.”

„Az egész nyomorult életem lepergett fáradt szemeim előtt, és rájöttem, hogy bármit is teszel, a végén úgyis csak időpocsékolás lesz, úgyhogy akár meg is őrülhetsz.”

„Mert nem volt olyan hely, ahol meg tudott volna maradni anélkül, hogy ne fáradjon el, és mert nem volt hova menni, csak mindenhova, tovább sodródni a csillagok alatt...”

“The only truth is music.”

“It all ends in tears anyway.”

“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"”

“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. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”

“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”

“His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.”

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”

“Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”

“Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.”

“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.”

“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 and popular opinion.”

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”

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

“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…”

“My witness is the empty sky.”

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

“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.”

“He saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo a thousand fondlings, revisings, moldings, addings, removings, graftings, tearings, correctings, smoothings, rebuildings, reconsiderings, nailings, tackings, chippings, hammerings, hoistings, connectings — all the poor fumbling uncertain incompletions of human endeavor.”

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die”

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

“They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.”

“The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.”

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them; disagree with them; glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

“Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world”