Jack Kerouac Big Sur Quotes

#1. Be sure that you think on whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. PHIL. 4:8.

Joseph Murphy

#2. You've certainly mellowed out ... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them?

Hiromu Arakawa

#3. 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

#4. And what will you call her, then?" Nancy asked the new mother. "Abigail," Naomi said. "We will call her Abigail." "Ah," Nancy said with a smile of approval. "'Tis Hebrew, meaning 'the father's joy.

Melanie Schmidt

#5. 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

#6. I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?"
The servant rolled his eyes. "He's not getting up! You killed him."
"My Tetlin ass! That's a god. Gods don't die. They're immortal."
"Really not so much," ...

Michael J. Sullivan

#7. But "common sense is not faith," Oswald Chambers had written, "and faith is not common sense.

Jan Karon

#8. The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.

Charles S. Maier

#9. Maybe it was only goblin women who were restless and wanted to see the world. She didn't know.

Maureen Doyle McQuerry

#10. Fact: If you don't have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.

Todd Duncan

#11. 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

#12. A champion is someone ho gets up,
een when he can't

Jack Dempsey

#13. Now, I'd replied, I don't know what I want. I can't paint anymore. Why? Because that part of me is empty.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

Eamon

#15. Is Virgin you trying to
fathom me

Jack Kerouac