Life Quotes Quote by Jack Kerouac — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.”

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“They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a holy temple. - I get a vision of myself and the two little boys hung up in a great endless universe with nothing overhead and nothing under bbut the Infinite Nothingness, the Enormousness of it, the dead without number in all directions of existence whether inward into the atom-worlds of your own body or outward to the universe which may only be one atom in an infinity of atom-worlds and each atom-world only a figure of speech - inward, outward, up and down, nothing but emptiness and divine majesty and silence for the two little boys and me.”

“I'd rather be thin than famous”

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

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”

“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.”

“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”