Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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If only I had the magic self of babyhood when I remembered what it was like before I was born, I wouldnt worry about death now knowing both to be the same empty dream.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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Members of the generation that came of age after World War II-Korean War who join in a relaxation of social and sexual tensions, and who espouse anti-regimentation, mystic-disaffiliation, and material-simplicity values, supposedly as a result of cold-war disillusionment. Coined by Jack Kerouac.
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(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?