Quotes from Jack Kerouac

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt

And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time and we all know time!

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

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Accept loss forever.

Life is life, and kind is kind

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

Details are the Life of Prose.

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

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

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

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.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

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.

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.