Quotes about Freedom

I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.

If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy...

I woke up from a deep sleep to find everybody sleeping like lambs and the car parked God knows where, because I couldn't see out the steamy windows. I got out of the car. We were in the mountains: there was a heaven of sunrise, cool purple airs, red mountainsides, emerald pastures in valleys, dew, and transmuting clouds of gold; on the ground gopher holes, cactus, mesquite. It was time for me to drive on.

Everything was everlastingly loose and responsive, it was all everywhere beyond the truth, beyond emptyspace blue.

Hopalong Cassidy conducting his great white horse across the traffic;

With the coming of Dean Moriarity began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.

The whole purpose of mountain-climbing to me isn't just to show off you can get to the top, it's getting out to this wild country.

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

Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

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, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!

On rails we leaned and looked at the great brown father of waters rolling down from mid-America like the torrent of broken souls

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, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...