Jack Kerouac Quotes

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Death does not exist.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

I don't believe in death.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

There isn't such a thing as death. It's just a departure.

Ecstasy is almost never discussed anymore, but leaving the earth is one way of attaining it. To exchange ecstasy for death is often the bargain.

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.