Jack Kerouac

All life is but a skull-bone and A rack of ribs through which we keep passing food & fuel- just so's we can burn so furious beautiful. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#beauty

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

— Jack Kerouac

#simplicity #writing #words

The only truth is music. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#truth #music

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

— Jack Kerouac

#failure #fault #i #lack #passions

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. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#parting #life

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#jack

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

— Jack Kerouac

#travel #life

because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars... ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#wanderlust #travel

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see? ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#inspirational

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

— Jack Kerouac

#kindness #serenity #compassion