100 Motivational Quotes By Jack Kerouac, The Author Of The Dharma Bums
Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac, who later came to be known as Jack Kerouac, was an American writer of poems and novels. Kerouac was one of the pioneering writers of the 1950s and 1960s, who was one of the icons of the ‘Beats Generation’ that rejected standard narratives in American society. Kerouac was an iconoclast par excellence who questioned some of the most sensitive topics in American society like religion, drug and promiscuity among other. Along with authors like Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, he became one of the most influential intellectuals of the era. During his lifetime, Kerouac had become an underground icon of sorts but his untimely death at the age of 47 in 1969 made him a mainstream star. Following his death; plenty of books had also been published posthumously and his following has only grown. Some of his most famous works include Big Sur, Visions of Cody, Mexico City Blues, The Town and the City, The Dharma Bums and many other, which are still read by people from all across the world. Kerouac was a man of great wit and wisdom, who delivered some great one-liners in his real life and also in his considerable body of work. Here are some of the very best.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
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.
The only truth is music.
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
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.
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
Will you love me in December as you do in May?
My witness is the empty sky.
It all ends in tears anyway.
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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...
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.
Beautiful insane in the rain
What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
