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The story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

Love, Life, Sadness, Mortality, Narrative

The story of love is a long sad tale ending

The story of love is a long sad tale ending

The story of love is a long sad tale ending

Jack Kerouac’s Quotes On Topics

More Jack Kerouac Quotes

“I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.”

Resilience, Struggle, Ability, Metaphor, Life Challenges

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

Choices, Future, Uncertainty, Life Paths, Missed Opportunities

“Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?”

Transcendence, Companionship, Nature, Spiritual Longing, Freedom

“We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell.”

Freedom, Exhilaration, America, Experience, Expression

“If you drop a rose in the Hudson River at its mysterious source in the Adirondacks, think of all the places it journeys by as it goes out to sea forever – think of that wonderful Hudson Valley.”

Journey, Nature, Reflection, Beauty, Flow

“It was a joy, though, to get down into the valley and lose sight of all that open sky space underneath everything and finally, as it got graying five o'clocking, about a hundred yards from the other boys and walking alone, to just pick my way singing and thinking along the little black cruds of a deer trail through the rocks, no call to think or look ahead or worry, just follow the little balls of deer crud with your eyes cast down and enjoy life.”

Nature Immersion, Solitude, Present Moment, Simple Joys, Carefree Living

“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.”

Journey, Worries, Travel, Inevitability, Life Struggles

“Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.”

Language, Creativity, Expression, Metaphor, Imagination

“All over America high school and college kids thinking ‘Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking’ while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded.”

Youth, Perspective, Reality, Aging, Disillusionment

“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”

Passion, Self-destruction, Emotion, Inner Fire, Cyclical Nature

“Actually I’m just a sick clown and so is everybody else.”

Identity, Humor, Humanity, Truth, Self-reflection

“A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.”

Smile, Sociability, Perception, Appearances, Irony

“Isn't it good to know winter is coming.”

Seasons, Anticipation, Change, Nature, Acceptance

“Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.”

Mind-body Duality, Existence, Glory, Perspective, Human Condition

“It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.”

Hope, Resilience, Human Spirit, Triumph, Possibility

“There was something virile in her attitude toward tragedy, as though she were defying God to knock off the chip He Himself had placed on her shoulder.”

Resilience, Defiance, Tragedy, Strength, Divine Challenge

“Life is not an apology.”

Unapologetic Living, Self-assertion, Life Philosophy, Confidence, Existential Statement

“The taste of rain – Why kneel?”

Nature Appreciation, Spirituality, Simplicity, Questioning, Sensory Experience

“Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.”

Sanity, Perception, Mental State, Self-awareness, Societal Norms

“I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.”

Identity, Religion, Cultural Labels, Self-definition, Personal Beliefs