Jack Kerouac Quotes About Ghosts

Quotes about: Ghosts

• I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Home, Tired

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

• Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Children, Father

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

• Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Squares, Lasts

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.130, Penguin

• I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Scared, Ghost, Stranger

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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