Jack Kerouac Quotes

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

No one wants to kiss when they are hungry.

I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.

Love? I need a lot of love." Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are hungry; it's OK to make a fuss and say, 'I'm so sleepy', if you are tired; but somehow we cannot say, 'I need some more love.' Why can't we say it? It's just as basic a need." - ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 36 pages 293-4

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

The belly comes before the soul.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.

Love is a very important part of life, and you have to give in to it. But after a while it ceases to be such an important force in life, and that's the time when you should give in to age and stop doing it, if you don't have the impulse any more.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.

I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.