Big Sur Jack Kerouac Quotes

#1. Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.

Jack Kerouac

#2. People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

Diablo Cody

#3. It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.

Marie-Chantal Claire

#4. Is Virgin you trying to
fathom me

Jack Kerouac

#5. When you're a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the curves are.

Brando Skyhorse

#6. I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Keith Haring

#7. The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it.
You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.

Edith Wharton

#8. What you feel is infatuation. It's an illness, an obsession. It's anything but love.

Raphael Montes

#9. In this world of smartphones, be a smart-app.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#10. Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#11. I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking in the face of hard things and still being able to move forward even when the end includes grave danger and the possibility of death is the mark of a man.

Anna Godbersen

#12. Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.

Sister Souljah

#13. You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

Rumi

#14. Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

Eckhart Tolle

#15. The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.

Thomas J. Stanley

#16. No difference between here and there: the city that you live in is the world.

Marcus Aurelius

#17. Back in the cabin I light the fire and sit sighing and there are leaves skittering on the tin roof, it's August in Big Sur
I fall asleep in the chair and when I wake up I'm facing the thick little tangled woods outside the door and I suddenly remember them from long ago

Jack Kerouac

#18. O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did: He might even be drunk and not noticing what he went and done tho of course that's not true

Jack Kerouac