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

“Love is bitter, death is sweet.”

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

“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”

“I'd rather be thin than famous”

“The only truth is music.”

“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.”

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”

““Sleep my little baby-oh”

“I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.”

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!”

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”