Jack Kerouac

Novelist Poet American 1922 – 1969

American Beat writer known for On the Road.

366 quotes

"The greatest adventure is within yourself."
Adventure
"Give me the simple life, and I'll give you the complex truths."
"Words are things, and if you don't know the word, you don't know the thing."
Knowledge
"The fear itself is what creates the monster."
Fear
"I've been searching and searching but I haven't found myself."
Philosophy
"Money is a dream, experience is reality."
Money
"There is no place to go but home."
Life
"The heart knows what it needs before the mind does."
"I went to the woods because I had something to find."
Nature
"Every person is a window into infinity."
Beauty
"The power of now is the only power that matters."
Power
"Sickness is the shadow of health."
Health
"I believe in the power of words to transform worlds."
Literature
"The greatest leadership comes from those who serve."
Leadership
"War is the failure of imagination."
War
"I am nothing but I have become everything."
"The technology of the future won't save us if we lose our souls."
Technology
"History is written by those who stay awake."
History
"Every conversation is a chance to start new."
"The politics of compassion is the only politics that matter."
Politics
"In the end, we are all running toward the same light."
"Inspiration doesn't wait for you to be ready."
Inspiration
"The depths of sadness contain the heights of joy."
"Family is the first adventure and the last home."
Family
"Education is remembering what you already knew."
Education
"Success is finding what you were looking for the whole time."
Success
"Friendship is two souls in one body."
Friendship
"The dreams we abandon are the ones that haunt us."
Dreams
"Courage is being terrified and doing it anyway."
Courage
"Art is the scream of those who refuse to be silent."
Art