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Quotes About Restlessness

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
~ Jack Kerouac
I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
~ Jack Kerouac
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.
~ Jack Kerouac
Besides which, she would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
~ Jack Kerouac
What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?" She didn't know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.
~ Jack Kerouac
And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.
~ Jack Kerouac
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion
~ Jack Kerouac
Sal, straight, no matter where I live, my trunk's always sticking out from under the bed, I'm ready to leave or get thrown out. I've decided to leave everything out of my hands. You've seen me try and break my ass to make it and you know that it doesn't matter and we know time — how to slow it up and walk and dig and just old-fashioned spade kicks, what other kicks are there? We know.
~ Jack Kerouac
besides which Lucille would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop.
~ Jack Kerouac
I like too many things and get confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop.
~ Jack Kerouac
This can't go on all the time- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.
~ Jack Kerouac
i've no time To dally hassel In your heart's house, It's too gray I'm too cold- I wanta go to Golden, That's my home.
~ Jack Kerouac
I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races
~ Jack Kerouac
He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It was a shaking of the head, up and down, sideways; jerky, vigorous hands; quick walking, sitting, crossing the legs, uncrossing, getting up, rubbing the hands, rubbing his fly, hitching his pants, looking up and saying 'Am,' and sudden slitting of the eyes to see everywhere; and all the time he was grabbing me by the ribs and talking, talking
~ Jack Kerouac
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop.
~ Jack Kerouac
besides which Lucille would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
~ Jack Kerouac
Nothin to do, Oh poo! Practically blue.
~ Jack Kerouac
Home in Missoula, Home in Truckee, Home in Opelousas, Ain't no home for me. Home in old Medora, Home in Wounded Knee, Home in Ogallala, Home I'll never be
~ Jack Kerouac
I had been spending a quiet Christmas in the country, as I realized when we got back into the house and I saw the Christmas tree, the presents, and smelled the roasting turkey and listened to the talk of the relatives, but now the bug was on me again, and the bug's name was Dean Moriarty and I was off on another spurt around the road.
~ Jack Kerouac
Where go? what do? what for?—sleep.
~ Jack Kerouac
nunca me comprendería porque me gustan demasiadas cosas y me confundo y desconcierto corriendo detrás de una estrella fugaz tras otra hasta que me hundo. Así es la noche, y eso produce. No puedo ofrecer más que mi propia confusión
~ Jack Kerouac
I looked greedily out the window: stucco houses and palms and drive-ins, the whole mad thing, the ragged promised land, the fantastic end of America.
~ Jack Kerouac
Apparently Dean had been quiet for a few months; now the angel had arrived and he was going mad again.
~ Jack Kerouac
I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
~ Jack Kerouac