74 quotes
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
Book of Dreams (1961)
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
On the Road (1957)
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Pomes All Sizes (1992)
All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
Visions of Gerard (1963)
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.
Book of Blues (1995)
The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.
Book of Haikus (2003)
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
Desolation Angels (1965)
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
The Dharma Bums (1958)
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life.
Everything belongs to me because I am poor.
Visions Of Cody (1973)
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
On the Road (1957)
What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
On the Road (1957)
So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
On the Road (1957)
I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.
Some of the Dharma (1997)
Be in love with your life every detail of it
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.
Visions Of Cody (1973)