logo

Quotes About Adventure

It is funny that some of must not only get our bearings but must also know all the details of the world before we venture out into it.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
forage cap slanted to his left eye and the
~ Jack Higgins
Nobody has to care anymore, we can even leave the whole scene to itself with Japanese fornicating machines fornicating chemical dolls on and on, with Robot Hospitals and Calculator Machine Crematories and just go off and be free in the Universe!
~ Jack Keroauc
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life
~ Jack Kerouac
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
~ Jack Kerouac
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.
~ Jack Kerouac
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?
~ Jack Kerouac
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
~ Jack Kerouac
I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
~ Jack Kerouac
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
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
~ Jack Kerouac
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
~ Jack Kerouac
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
~ Jack Kerouac
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
~ Jack Kerouac
all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
~ Jack Kerouac
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
~ Jack Kerouac
Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
~ Jack Kerouac
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
~ Jack Kerouac
Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
~ Jack Kerouac
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.
~ Jack Kerouac
Why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
~ Jack Kerouac
You guys are going somewhere or just going?
~ Jack Kerouac
La única gente que me interesa es la que está loca, la gente que está loca por vivir, loca por hablar, loca por salvarse, con ganas de todo al mismo tiempo, la gente que nunca bosteza ni habla de lugares comunes, sino que arde, arde como fabulosos cohetes amarillos explotando igual que arañas entre las estrellas.
~ Jack Kerouac
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
~ Jack Kerouac