Josh Kern > Josh's Quotes

“It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“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.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I liked him; not because he was a good sort, as he later proved to be, but because he was enthusiastic about things.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help. (p.111)”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

“It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.”
― Jack Kerouac, Book of Blues

“all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“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.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Nothing ever happened - Not even this ”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“I felt free and therefore I was free.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
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― Jack Kerouac

“What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old”
― Jack Kerouac

“I like it because its ugly”
― Jack Kerouac

“I have nothing to do but do what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgments and pray for the light.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“I feel impossibly sad and like I'll die, what can we do?”
― Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans

“You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I like listening to music, but only the kind you play, absolute music, the kind that makes you feel that someone is rattling at the doors if heaven and hell. I like music very much, I think, because it's so unconcerned with morality.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend