Quotes About Journey

When daybreak came we were zooming through New Jersey with the great cloud of Metropolitan New York rising before us in the snowy distance. Dean had a sweater wrapped around his ears to keep warm. He said we were a band of Arabs coming in to blow up New York.

Now we were on the great Texas plain and, as Dean said, You drive and drive and you're still in Texas tomorrow night.

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

You can't live in this world but there's no where else to go.

It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow

Basta seguire la strada e prima o poi si fa il giro del mondo. Non può finire in nessun altro posto, no?

We live to long, so long I will

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn't read - Sal Paradise, On The Road

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Where is he tonight? Where am I? Where are you?

But why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

But no matter, the road is life.

Old Dean's gone, I thought, and out loud I said, He'll be all right. And off we went to the sad and disinclined concert for which I had no stomach and all the time I was thinking of Dean and how he got back on the train and rode over three thousand miles over that awful land and never knew why he had come anyway, except to see me.

As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

I was very rich now, a super myriad trillionaire in Samapatti transcendental graces, because of good humble karma, maybe because I had pitied the dog and forgiven men. But I knew now that I was a bliss heir, and that the final sin, the worst, is righteousness. So I would shut up and just hit the road and go see Japhy.

I told you it was kicks. Everybody's kicks, man!

Since life is a dream I think I'll stop eating and drinking so much--do some ethereal daydreaming instead--go in the mansion of the mind and close all the doors, as if I was traveling in the back of a bus for 4 days & 4 nights, broke.

If you keep this up you'll both go crazy, but let me know what happens as you go along.

And for the first time in my life, the following afternoon, I went into the West.

He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the moment that everybody knows it's not the tune that counts but IT.

Es que el mundo que nos rodea es demasiado grande, y es el adios. Pero nos lanzamos hacia adelante en busca de la proxima aventura disparatada bajo los cielos.

Non si può vivere in questo mondo, ma non c'è nessun altro posto dove andare.