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We are nothing. – Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. – You and me.

Nihilism, Mortality, Human Insignificance, Shared Fate, Existential Thoughts

We are nothing – Tomorrow we may be die We

We are nothing – Tomorrow we may be die We

We are nothing – Tomorrow we may be die We

Jack Kerouac’s Quotes On Topics

Cosmic Chaos | Control | Brevity | Societal Expectations | Self-expression | Criticism | Beginnings | Lifestyle | Indifference | Sorrow | Ambition | Future | Exhilaration | Storytelling | Existence | Reflection | Choice | Poetry | Triumph | Priorities | More

More Jack Kerouac Quotes

“The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.”

Pessimism, Cynicism, Life’s Banalities, Spiritual Emptiness, Consumerism

“We agreed to love each other madly.”

Love, Passion, Agreement, Intensity, Relationship

“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. Get to San Francisco. Get to San Francisco in defiance of your geography, your ancestry and the lonely change rattling sad excuses in your pocket. Fuel up on pie and diner coffee and mystic visions and the freedom of not knowing what's coming next except that you're burning the road to outrun it.”

Authenticity, Journey, Freedom, Adventure, Self-discovery

“One fast move or I'm gone,′ I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -.”

Desperation, Hopelessness, Experience, Substances, Existential Crisis

“This is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change.”

Happiness, Complexity, Philosophy, Doubt, Change

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

Preference, Mortality, Travel, Risk-taking, Personal Choice

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

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

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.”

Life Philosophy, Joy, Love, Desire, Laughter

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

Friendship, Adventure, Transformation, Life Journey, Pivotal Moments

“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

“Details are the Life of Prose.”

Writing, Detail, Prose, Craft, Literary Advice

“My witness is the empty sky.”

Emptiness, Witness, Nature, Philosophy, Reflection

“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

“Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?”

Compassion, Universe, Divine Nature, Human Cruelty, Cosmic Perspective

“I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.”

Divine Love, Faith, Protection, Surrender, Universal Care

“It’s only through form that we can realize emptiness.”

Form, Emptiness, Philosophy, Understanding, Perception

“We understood each other on other levels of madness.”

Understanding, Madness, Connection, Shared Experiences, Unconventional Bonds

“I don't know when we'll meet again or what'll happen in the future, but Desolation, Desolation, I owe so much to Desolation, thank you forever for guiding me to the place where I learned all. Now comes the sadness of coming back to cities and I've grown two months older and there's all that humanity of bars and burlesque shows and gritty love, all upsidedown in the void God bless them, but Japhy you and me forever we know, O ever youthful, O ever weeping.”

Gratitude, Desolation, Learning, Urban Life, Friendship

“God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive – the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.”

Spiritual Absence, Altered Perception, Friendship, Anticipation, Revelation

“Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you're going a hundred miles an hour.”

Writing, Meditation, Speed, Paradox, Creative Process