Jack Kerouac Quotes

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

The sparrow still falls.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

All who are born are always dying.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.