"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life begins on the other side of despair."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Existence is prior to essence."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"We are our choices."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)

"Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
— Jack Kerouac

"I stood in the middle of the room flipping and Pusher was plucking at the guitar, just one string, and I went up to him and said, 'Man don't pluck those dirty notes at ME,' and like he just got up without a word and left. [Mardou]"
— Jack Kerouac (The Subterraneans)

"Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??"
— Jack Kerouac

"The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"If God does not exist, then everything is permitted"
— Dostoevesky or Sartre?

""I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.""
— -Jean-Paul Sartre

"Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"I'm writing this book because we're all going to die."
— Jack Kerouac

"Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes."
— Jack Kerouac

"the road is life"
— Jack Kerouac

"L'enfer c'est les autres."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"I am only resolved to act in a manner which will constitute my own happiness without reference to you or any person so wholly unconnected with me."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

""A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.""
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
— Jane Austen

"What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road: The Original Scroll)

""As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.""
— Jack Kerouac

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
— Jane Austen (Emma)

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
— Jane Austen

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
— Jane Austen

"Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth."
— Jack Kerouac

"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference."
— Jack Kerouac

"a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth"
— Jack Kerouac

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."
— Jack Kerouac

"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."
— Jane Austen

"Imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of [men] too reasonable...to desire anything more in woman than ignorance."
— Jane Austen

"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"Nothing ever happened - Not even this "
— Jack Kerouac (Big Sur)

"... the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved ..."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."
— Jane Austen

"Any savage can dance."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister.
"I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him."
Marianne here burst with forth with indignation:
"Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment."
Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

"I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

"They build their own Hells."
— Jack Kerouac

"And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!"
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
— Jack Kerouac

"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

""Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.""
— Jack Kerouac