Jack Kerouac Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him. The Dharma Bums

2. And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

3. And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change. Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

4. Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot! The Dharma Bums

5. Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same. The Dharma Bums

6. Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all. The Dharma Bums

7. It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

8. So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry Desolation Angels

9. The only truth is music.

10. 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... Big Sur

11. And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks! The Dharma Bums

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

13. I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.

14. Love is bitter, death is sweet. Maggie Cassidy

15. Since beginningless time and into the never-ending future, men have loved women without telling them, and the Lord has loved them without telling, and the void is not the void because there's nothing to be empty of. Art there, Lord Star? - Diminished is the drizzle that broke my calm. Tristessa

16. What is the universe but a lot of wavesAnd a craving desire is a wave… Scattered Poems