Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Explore a curated collection of 47 quotes by Jack Kerouac. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves. — Jack Kerouac
Be in love with your life, every detail of it. — Jack Kerouac
It is possible for the human spirit to win after all. — Jack Kerouac
The only truth is music. — Jack Kerouac
It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flau — Jack Kerouac
Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- — Jack Kerouac
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. — Jack Kerouac
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop. — Jack Kerouac
Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it. — Jack Kerouac
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy — Jack Kerouac
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. — Jack Kerouac
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into confor — Jack Kerouac
Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on — Jack Kerouac
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. — Jack Kerouac
A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the — Jack Kerouac
Be in love with your life. Every minute of it. — Jack Kerouac
All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My ey — Jack Kerouac
It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — gir — Jack Kerouac
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, — Jack Kerouac
You're a Genius all the time — Jack Kerouac