Jack Kerouac Quotes

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Is a dream reality till you wake up?

Everything you know could already be wrong.

Things are always different from what they might be.

Life is not always what we think it is.

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.

None of it seems real. Who knows? Maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s actually happening to someone else. Maybe it’s something I imagined. Maybe soon I’m going to wake up and find everything fixed with Lissa and Dimitri. We’ll all be together, and he’ll be there to smile and hold me and tell me everything ‘s going to be okay. Maybe all of this really has been a dream. But I don’t think so.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.