Quotes by Jack Kerouac

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
• I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
• Accept loss forever.
• 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.
• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
• All of life is a foreign country.
• It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
• Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
• Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
• My witness is the empty sky.
• Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
• Life is a crazy ride, and if you don’t throw your hands up and scream once in a while, are you really even enjoying it?
• Adventure may not always be glamorous, but it always beats a show in your living room.
• Every time you hesitate is a road sign that life is making to bump you back into our adventurous spirit.