Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouacwas an American novelist and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1922
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Jack Kerouac quotes about
cries crowd cry dark door head heaven insults life oh poverty sad send terrors worst
Oh little Cody Pomeray if there had been some way to send a cry to you even when you were too little to know what utterances and cries are for in this dark sad earth, with your terrors in a world so malign and inhospitable, and all the insults from heaven ramming down to crowd your head with anger, pain, disgrace, worst of all the crapulous poverty in and out of every splintered door of days, if someone could have said to you then, and made you perceive, "Fear life, but don't die; you're alone, everybody's alone. Oh Cody Pomeray, you can't win, you can't lose, all is ephemeral, all is hurt.
kindness practice heaven
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
i-hate-you glowing pages
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
ink life-worth-living living-on
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
heartbreaking new-friends
We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.
tattoo too-much enough
It's all too much and not enough at the same time.
utah sky clouds
As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.
inspirational life dream
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
catholic beatnik
I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
snakes touch-me
Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.
remove inhibitions
Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,
being-alone men boredom
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
drinking drunk enjoy-life
Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
teeth mouths sociable
a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth