# Jack Kerouac

- Quotes: 136
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac

## Books

- [Big Sur](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/big-sur.md) — 3 quotes
- [Desolation Angels](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/desolation-angels.md) — 6 quotes
- [Lonesome Traveler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/lonesome-traveler.md) — 4 quotes
- [Maggie Cassidy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy.md) — 9 quotes
- [On the Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road.md) — 77 quotes
- [Some of the Dharma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/some-of-the-dharma.md) — 5 quotes
- [The Dharma Bums](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/the-dharma-bums.md) — 24 quotes
- [The Subterraneans](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/the-subterraneans.md) — 1 quote
- [The Town and the City](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/the-town-and-the-city.md) — 1 quote
- [Tristessa](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/tristessa.md) — 1 quote
- [Vanity of Duluoz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/vanity-of-duluoz.md) — 2 quotes
- [Visions of Cody](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/visions-of-cody.md) — 3 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> I'm sure gonna get you tonight — aint gonna be like it used to be with you — I'm gonna find out about you at last.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/im-sure-gonna.md)

> She laughed in his face, he slammed the door shut, put out lights, drove her home, drove the car back skittering crazily in the slush, sick, cursing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/she-laughed-in-his.md)

> Fluting spring was racing through the corridors and ritual alleys of my sacred brain in holy life and making me wake and resurge to the business of being and becoming a man.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/fluting-spring-was.md)

> I saw her, standing in the crowd, forlorn, dissatisfied, dark, unpleasantly strange.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/i-saw-her.md)

> Heirs leap screeching from doctors' laps while the old and the poor die on, and who's to bend over their bed and comfort.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/heirs-leap-screeching.md)

> I grieved inside that I had to give her up for Maggie. But I couldn't have Mary and Magdalene both so I had to decide my mind.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/i-grieved-inside.md)

> To my utter amazement I saw out of the corner of my eye the colored boy laid out almost flat on the floor in a low slung fantastic starting position, something impossibly modern and submarining and subterranean like bop, like the new gesture of a generation.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/to-my-utter.md)

> It's only later you learn to lean your head in the lap of God, and rest in love.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/its-only-later.md)

> All in life, prime, young joy days, riches of sixteen, I sneaked off to the lazy unresponsive girl three miles across town by the tragic-flowing dark sad Concord.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/all-in-life.md)

> Mankind is like dogs, not gods — as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you — but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/some-of-the-dharma/mankind-is-like.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/some-of-the-dharma/soon-ill-find.md)

> (...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/vanity-of-duluoz/who-is-he-that.md)