Zitate von Jack Kerouac

3 0

Jack Kerouac

Geburtstag: 12. März 1922
Todesdatum: 21. Oktober 1969

Jack Kerouac; eigentlich Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac , war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller franko-kanadischer Herkunft und einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der Beat Generation.

Zitate Jack Kerouac

„Aber warum Trübsal blasen, wenn das ganze goldene Land vor einem liegt und alle möglichen ungeahnten Ereignisse auf einen warten, einen überraschen und glücklich machen wollen, weil man lebt und sie erleben kann.“

— Jack Kerouac
On the Road: the Original Scroll

„Alles, was ich wollte und was Neal wollte und was alle wollten, war, irgendwie ins Herz der Dinge vorzudringen,…“

— Jack Kerouac
On the Road: the Original Scroll

„Ich mag dich, aber nicht deine idiotischen Freunde.“

— Jack Kerouac
On the Road

„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.“

— Jack Kerouac
Part Two, Ch. 4

„There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.“

— Jack Kerouac, On the Road: the Original Scroll

„Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.“

— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Sometimes paraphrased as "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple" or "Someday I will find the right words … ", and sometimes misattributed to The Dharma Bums rather than to Some of the Dharma.

„Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.“

— Jack Kerouac

„Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.“

— Jack Kerouac

„It all ends in tears anyway.“

— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

„The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"“

— Jack Kerouac
Context: They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" Part One, Ch. 1