Great Quotes From Jack Kerouac's On the Road "Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child, believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome, grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life."- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 1, Ch. 13 "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."- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 2, Ch. 4 "Our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives."- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 3, Ch. 5 “You don’t die enough to cry.” Part 3,
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