Jack Kerouac Quotes

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want.

He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

There is such a choice of difficulties, that I own myself at a loss how to determine

I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it.

That's not what I'm looking forward to, just being home and just kind of not really sure kind of what to do with myself.

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.