On the Road Quotes

“Everything is fine, God exists, we know time.”

“Life is life, and kind is kind.”

“Here were the children of the American bop night.”

“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”

“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”

“Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.”

“We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”

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“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.”

“In myriad pricklings of heavenly radiation I had to struggle to see Dean's figure, and he looked like God.”

“"Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there."
"Where we going, man?"
"I don't know but we gotta go."”

“We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad.”

“They’ve got a lot more up their sleeves besides a dirty arm. Remember that. You can’t teach the old maestro a new tune.”

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

“A shadow of disappointment crossed Remi’s brow - he was always being disappointed about the funniest things. He had a heart of gold.”

“Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.”

“He was a real red-nose young drunk of thirty and would have bored me ordinarily, except that my senses were sharp for any kind of human friendship.”

“‘Sure, baby, mañana.’ It was always mañana. For the next week that was all I heard - mañana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”