Quotes from Jack Kerouac
I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
- Jack Kerouac
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
- Jack Kerouac
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
- 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
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
- Jack Kerouac
The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.
- Jack Kerouac
If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.
- Jack Kerouac
I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'
- Jack Kerouac
I know who the great poets are.
- Jack Kerouac
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
- Jack Kerouac
All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
- Jack Kerouac
Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.
- Jack Kerouac