Quotes about Life
It seems to me now that my life is writing, be it only words without meaning...When I am 33 I shall put a bullet straight through me.
— Jack Kerouac
I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it
— Jack Kerouac
He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him.
— Jack Kerouac
Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in.
— Jack Kerouac
You have to believe in life before you can accomplish anything.
— Jack Kerouac
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?…
— Jack Kerouac
he wanted so much to live...
— Jack Kerouac
grasping after life as much as you can because of its sweet sadness and because you would be dead some day.
— Jack Kerouac
Dean pointed out with a grimace of pain. "It's not the kind of sweat we have, it's oily and it's always there because it's always hot the year round and she knows nothing of non-sweat, she was born with sweat and dies with sweat." The sweat on her little brow was heavy, sluggish; it didn't run; it just stood there and gleamed like a fine olive oil. "What that must do to their souls! How different they must be
— Jack Kerouac
For life is holy, and every moment is precious.
— Jack Kerouac
He would have had to roam the entire United States and look in every garbage pail from coast to coast before he found me embryonically convoluted among the rubbishes of my life, his life, and the life of everybody concerned and not concerned.
— Jack Kerouac
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain
— Jack Kerouac