Jack Kerouac Quotes


"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Opinion, Popular, Yield)

"Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: End, Nothing, World)

"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Confusion, Nothing)

"Accept loss forever."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Loss)

"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
(Related: Time, Heart, Direction, Pain, World)

"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Men, Land)

"All of life is a foreign country."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Life, Country)

"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
(Related: Fault, Theories)

"You can't teach the old maestro a new tune."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Old)

"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself."
- Jack Kerouac
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Car, America, Night)

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Life, Road)

"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Want)

"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
(Related: Life, Hope, Consciousness, Man)

"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Life, Eye, Stars)

"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Crime, Fault, Indifference, Moderation)

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Control, Failure, Fault)

"My witness is the empty sky."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Sky)

"Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Gods, Dogs, Humility, Mankind, Respect, Sorrow)