Quotes by Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Explore a curated collection of 21 quotes by Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums. 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.

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and r — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.... — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
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. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks! — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles following me on the roa — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look famil — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think w — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any ange — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Smith, you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others.' The way he did it was charming; there — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums