We fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
Jack Kerouac
Existential Angst, Loss, Mortality, Disbelief, Life’s Purpose
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More Jack Kerouac Quotes
“Still the Void is still and'll never move – But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.” Jack Kerouac
Void, Stillness, Movement, Paradox, Existential Thoughts
Jack Kerouac Void, Stillness, Movement, Paradox, Existential Thoughts“We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.” Jack Kerouac
Existential Questioning, Sadness, Divine Creation, Contemplation, Human Condition
Jack Kerouac Existential Questioning, Sadness, Divine Creation, Contemplation, Human Condition“Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, stabilized-within-the-photo lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, or actual night, the hell of it, the senseless nightmare road. All of it inside endless and beginningless emptiness.” Jack Kerouac
Snapshots, Memories, Perception, Reality, Reflection
Jack Kerouac Snapshots, Memories, Perception, Reality, Reflection“This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy.” Jack Kerouac
Silence, Communication, Connection, Understanding, Wordless Bond
Jack Kerouac Silence, Communication, Connection, Understanding, Wordless Bond“Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.” Jack Kerouac
Art, Emotion, Authenticity, Craft, Creative Expression
Jack Kerouac Art, Emotion, Authenticity, Craft, Creative Expression“They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.” Jack Kerouac
Counterculture, Beatnik, America, Social Movement, Cultural Shift
Jack Kerouac Counterculture, Beatnik, America, Social Movement, Cultural Shift“Something that you feel will find its own form.” Jack Kerouac
Creativity, Expression, Intuition, Artistic Process, Self-discovery
Jack Kerouac Creativity, Expression, Intuition, Artistic Process, Self-discovery“I’m going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.” Jack Kerouac
Writing, Imagination, Creativity, Stories, Commitment
Jack Kerouac Writing, Imagination, Creativity, Stories, Commitment“We fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?” Jack Kerouac
Existential Angst, Loss, Mortality, Disbelief, Life’s Purpose
Jack Kerouac Existential Angst, Loss, Mortality, Disbelief, Life’s Purpose“To make the sea your own, to watch over it, to brood your very soul into it, to accept it and love it as though only it mattered and existed.” Jack Kerouac
Sea, Devotion, Acceptance, Obsession, Nature Connection
Jack Kerouac Sea, Devotion, Acceptance, Obsession, Nature Connection“I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.” Jack Kerouac
Resilience, Struggle, Ability, Metaphor, Life Challenges
Jack Kerouac Resilience, Struggle, Ability, Metaphor, Life Challenges“We are sealed in our own little melancholy atmospheres, like planets, and revolving around the sun, our common but distant desire.” Jack Kerouac
Isolation, Desire, Melancholy, Humanity, Universe
Jack Kerouac Isolation, Desire, Melancholy, Humanity, Universe“As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.” Jack Kerouac
Reason, Knowledge, Transcendence, Understanding, Philosophy
Jack Kerouac Reason, Knowledge, Transcendence, Understanding, Philosophy“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.” Jack Kerouac
Creativity, Genius, Talent, Artistic Process, Inspiration
Jack Kerouac Creativity, Genius, Talent, Artistic Process, Inspiration“Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?” Jack Kerouac
Despair, Connection, Empathy, Personal Struggles, Human Condition
Jack Kerouac Despair, Connection, Empathy, Personal Struggles, Human Condition“Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.” Jack Kerouac
Mind, Creation, Philosophy, Existence, Reflection
Jack Kerouac Mind, Creation, Philosophy, Existence, Reflection“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.” Jack Kerouac
Life Philosophy, Joy, Love, Desire, Laughter
Jack Kerouac Life Philosophy, Joy, Love, Desire, Laughter“I always thought October was a kind old Love-light.” Jack Kerouac
October, Love, Reflection, Nature, Emotion
Jack Kerouac October, Love, Reflection, Nature, Emotion