Jack Kerouac Quotes About Direction, Love, Dream, World, Adventure

Jack Kerouac Quotes:

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Jack Kerouac

Accept loss forever.
Jack Kerouac

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with ‘On the Road’ and ‘The Dharma Bums’, I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
Jack Kerouac

All of life is a foreign country.
Jack Kerouac

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac

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As you get older, you get more… genealogical.
Jack Kerouac

Avoid the world, it’s just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Jack Kerouac

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac

I didn’t dictate sections of ‘Visions of Cody.’ I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
Jack Kerouac

I didn’t dictate sections of ‘Visions of Cody’. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It’s four chapters.
Jack Kerouac

I don’t really go out at all.
Jack Kerouac

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
Jack Kerouac

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac

I know who the great poets are.
Jack Kerouac

I made myself famous by writing ‘songs’ and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
Jack Kerouac

I really hate to write.
Jack Kerouac

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac

I’m not a beatnik. I’m a Catholic.
Jack Kerouac

I’m really Wallace Beery in ‘The Champ.’
Jack Kerouac

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Jack Kerouac