Quotes from Jack Kerouac
Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
- Jack Kerouac
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
- Jack Kerouac
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength
- Jack Kerouac
It's all too much and not enough at the same time.
- Jack Kerouac
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
- Jack Kerouac
His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.
- Jack Kerouac
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
- Jack Kerouac
An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...
- Jack Kerouac
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
- Jack Kerouac
I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
- Jack Kerouac
I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.
- 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