Jack Kerouac Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

  Jack Kerouac

  Motivational, Wisdom, Travel

• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Travel, Stars

  "On the Road".

• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Wisdom, Writing

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

• The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Yoga

  "Lonesome Traveler".

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Leaving, World

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Phones, People

• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Men, Giving

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.220, Library of America

• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Failure, Passion

• Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Silence, Dharma Bums

• I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Yelling

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

• Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Travel, Inspire

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.175, Penguin

• Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Want, Panic

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

• The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

  Jack Kerouac

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Real

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.206, Penguin

• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love, Life, Girl

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

• My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Aunt, Men

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

• I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Children, Stories

• If you own a rug you own too much.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Too Much, Ifs

• On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Stars, Spring

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.170, BookBaby

• As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Drunk, Rooms

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.163, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The only truth is music.

  Jack Kerouac

  Music, Wisdom, Inspirational Music

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

• The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Teacher, Views

• 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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sky, Space

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Hate, World

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.113, BookBaby

• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Wisdom, Drinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.183, Penguin

• One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.134, Penguin

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