61 Inspiring Jack Kerouac Quotes To Keep Yourself On Track

Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969) was an American novelist, poet, and journalist during the Beat generation. He wrote several successful books, including On the Road and Confessions of a Cigar-Smoker. Also, he wrote numerous magazine articles for the magazines of the time, such as “The New Yorker” and “The Village Voice.” He also wrote poetry, short stories, and essays that are now considered classics.

He started writing in his teens and published one book a year until he reached age 50. His style was influenced by writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, William S Burroughs, and many others. He is known for his wildly crazy lifestyle, his ability to convert apparent chaos into a compelling narrative, and his lyricism.

Here are his most inspiring quotes that will inspire your travel journey and make you go on the right track.

Top 61 Inspiring Jack Kerouac Quotes

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

“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.”

“Avoid the world, it’s just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.”

“You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday.”

“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars .”

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain”

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distortted point of view.”

“The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.”

“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.”

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”

“…we all must admit that everything is fine and there’s no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we’re not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.”

“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”

“What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”

“I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference.I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

“Houses are full of things that gather dust.”

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate’s so easy compared.”

“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”

“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”

“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”

“I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.”

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.”

“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”

“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.”

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”

“They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there – and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see.”

“You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.”

“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.”

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

“Something good will come of all things yet”

“On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.”

“all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”

“Hell! I’m glad I did it. It’s going to be a change. I call this life!“

“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”

“In the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”

“Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.”

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again…”

“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.”

“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge”

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again….”

“I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.”

“‘I just won’t sleep,’ I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do. ”

“The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.”

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”

“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”

“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”

“Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn…”

“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”

“Something good will come of all things yet.”

“…we all must admit that everything is fine and there’s no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we’re not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.”

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