Jack Kerouac Quotes

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• 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

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  Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

  Jack Kerouac

  Kindness, Practice, Heaven

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Friends, Horse

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• Put down the pen someone else gave you.
  No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ink, Life Worth Living, Living On

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• 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

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• Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Be Kind, Kind

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.84, Penguin

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
  Rocks dont see it.
  Bless and sit down.
  Forgive and forget.
  Practice kindness all day to everybody
  and you will realize you’re already
  in heaven now.
  That’s the story.
  That’s the message.
  Nobody understands it,
  nobody listens, they’re
  all running around like chickens with heads cut
  off. I will try to teach it but it will
  be in vain, s’why I’ll
  end up in a shack
  praying and being
  cool and singing
  by my woodstove
  making pancakes.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Kindness, Cutting

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• It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Tattoo, Too Much, Enough

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• I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

  Jack Kerouac

  Crazy, World, I Realized

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

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• 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.

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  Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

  Jack Kerouac

  Light, Flames, Forever

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• Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Teacher, Views

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• While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light

  Jack Kerouac

  Light, Darkness, May

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.79, City Lights Books

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• 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".

  91 Copy quote

• I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

  Jack Kerouac

  Swimming, Rivers, Hardship

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Phones, People

  27 Copy quote

• Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

  Jack Kerouac

  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

  58 Copy quote

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Yoga

  "Lonesome Traveler".

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• The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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

  Jack Kerouac

  I Hate You, Glowing, Pages

  Jack Kerouac (1971). “The Dharma Bums”, p.138, Penguin

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• Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Essence, Forever

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• The only truth is music.

  Jack Kerouac

  Music, Wisdom, Inspirational Music

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

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