Jack Kerouac Quotes

Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.

If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...

Everything is only a dream.

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?...someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Yet the stupid believe that they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, and that man a herdsman- how dense!

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?