Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.
The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.
Down in Denver, all I did was die.
I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.
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.
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".
...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.
We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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.
Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.
It's only through form that we can realize emptiness
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.
I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?
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