Jack Kerouac World Quotations

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

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

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

We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it.

I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.

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

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

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

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.

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.