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Quotes About Wanderlust

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
Now we were on the great Texas plain and, as Dean said, You drive and drive and you're still in Texas tomorrow night.
~ Jack Kerouac
The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.
~ 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
You can't live in this world but there's no where else to go.
~ Jack Kerouac
It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow
~ Jack Kerouac
Basta seguire la strada e prima o poi si fa il giro del mondo. Non può finire in nessun altro posto, no?
~ Jack Kerouac
But no matter, the road is life.
~ 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
Un dolore mi trafisse il cuore, come succedeva ogni volta che vedevo una ragazza che mi piaceva andarsene in direzione opposta alla mia in questo mondo troppo grande.
~ Jack Kerouac
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.
~ Jack Kerouac
Non si può vivere in questo mondo, ma non c'è nessun altro posto dove andare.
~ Jack Kerouac
If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy...
~ Jack Kerouac
This was a manuscript of the night we couldn't read - Sal Paradise
~ Jack Kerouac
She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.
~ Jack Kerouac
I woke up from a deep sleep to find everybody sleeping like lambs and the car parked God knows where, because I couldn't see out the steamy windows. I got out of the car. We were in the mountains: there was a heaven of sunrise, cool purple airs, red mountainsides, emerald pastures in valleys, dew, and transmuting clouds of gold; on the ground gopher holes, cactus, mesquite. It was time for me to drive on.
~ Jack Kerouac
I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go.
~ Jack Kerouac
I wanted to get me a full pack complete with everything necessary to sleep, shelter, eat, cook, in fact a regular kitchen and bedroom right on my back, and go off somewhere and find perfect solitude and look into the perfect emptiness of my mind and be completely neutral from any and all ideas. I intended to pray, too, as my only activity, pray for all living creatures; I saw it was the only decent activity left in the world.
~ Jack Kerouac
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? —it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. We
~ Jack Kerouac
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? —it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
~ Jack Kerouac
Senevabitch Jackcrack, vugup huh?
~ Jack Kerouac
The straight line will take you only to death.
~ Jack Kerouac
With the coming of Dean Moriarity began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.
~ Jack Kerouac
İnsanlardan uzakla??rken arkana bak?p da onlar? yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ gözden kaybolan birer leke olarak gördüÄŸünde kap?ld???n o duygu nedir? Fazlas?yla büyük olan dünyan?n bizi içine yuvarlamas?d?r, vedad?r bu. Ne ki, gökyüzünün alt?nda bizi bir bekleyen bir sonraki ç?lg?n serüvene doÄŸru uzan?r?z yine.
~ Jack Kerouac