Jack Kerouac Quotes

Life is extremely complicated.

There are many things that I don't understand.

God, our world is so complicated.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

Fundamentally, I have no idea how the world works, though I am trying to figure it out.

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

It is beyond my apprehension.

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

The more I see, the less I know.

I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.