Jack Kerouac quotes

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
- Jack Kerouac

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
- Jack Kerouac

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
- Jack Kerouac

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
- Jack Kerouac

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
- Jack Kerouac

The only truth is music.
- Jack Kerouac

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
- Jack Kerouac

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
- Jack Kerouac

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
- Jack Kerouac

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

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.
- Jack Kerouac

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.
- Jack Kerouac

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

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
- Jack Kerouac

I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
- Jack Kerouac

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
- Jack Kerouac

Will you love me in December as you do in May?
- Jack Kerouac

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...
- Jack Kerouac

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
- Jack Kerouac

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
- Jack Kerouac

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
- Jack Kerouac