One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. Jack Kerouac More Quotes by Jack Kerouac More Quotes From Jack Kerouac Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same. Jack Kerouac faith god children Houses are full of things that gather dust Jack Kerouac dust wisdom house The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method. Jack Kerouac vision facts thinking They build their own Hells. Jack Kerouac hell ...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move. Jack Kerouac function noble moving When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along. Jack Kerouac echoes rain wind Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. Jack Kerouac wisdom silly world We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period. Jack Kerouac scotch car running I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other. Jack Kerouac care love-you way The silence was an intense roar. Jack Kerouac intense silence equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha Jack Kerouac empty I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all Jack Kerouac sides remember lying But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back. Jack Kerouac blow mean thinking And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more". Jack Kerouac joy life thinking Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me. Jack Kerouac vision girl would-be Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go. Jack Kerouac road-life wisdom men That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor. Jack Kerouac story-of-my-life rich-or-poor stories 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. Jack Kerouac new-york night thinking "What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. "I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. Jack Kerouac girl two hands The beat generation (coined in Playboy) Jack Kerouac playboy beats generations