The Sea Is My Brother Quotes

“To make the sea your own, to watch over it, to brood your very soul into it, to accept it and love it as though only it mattered and existed.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror . . . and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“Does this mean that frontiers from now on are to be in the imagination?”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“Hell! I’m glad I did it. It’s going to be a change. I
call this life!”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at bthe paino playing a powerful movement from some Symphony in D major by Beethoven, by Brahms, by Sibelius, by Tschaikowsky, by anybody, by Thomas Wolfe, by Ernest Hemmingway, by William Saroyan, by Jack Kerouac, by George Apostolos, by Sebastian the Prince, by Love, by Earth, by Fire, by Water, by All, Everything, Love you and I, me myself, egotist, Earth, Fire, a mad and wild concoction of all Life, and of the all-embracing All.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel

“You’d never care to plant some roots in
society, I suppose,” mused the other.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“[He] seemed at home and content now they were sailing, as though leaving the port meant the cessation of all his worries, and heading out to sea a new era of peace and amenity.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“„You know women,“ confided the fruitseller, „they love little cats... they always love the helpless things. But when it comes to men, you know, they'll want them cruel.“
The youth stranger smiled thinly.
„Am I right?“ laughed the man, slapping the youth on the back and reentering his store with the kitten, chuckling to himself.
„Maybe so,“ mumbled the youth to himself. „How the hell should I know?”
― Jack Kerouac , The Sea Is My Brother

“Don’t you have a class this morning, Georgie?”
Day mumbled something that sounded like
“Ancient History of the Near East and Greece.”
“Poof!” scoffed Everhart, flourishing his fork,
“Come with me and see the Near East.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“Life was life no matter where one lived”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“I haven't the courage, or perhaps the hardness, to withstand the tremendous pathos of this life. I love life's casual beauty- fear its awful strength.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel

“Did they know that he stood on the bow every morning, noon, and night for an hour...this prayer of thanks to a God more a God than any to be found in book-bound, altar-bound Religion?”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“Değişim toplumun sıhhatidir.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“All life is but a skull-bone and
A rack of ribs through which
we keep passing food & fuel –
just so’s we can burn so
furious beautiful.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel

“Dear Sirs: Do you mind if I let my heart out, splattering all its delicate essences over these following pages?”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“Joe gibilerin "her şeyi berbat etmesine" izin verilemezdi. Peki neydi bu "her şey?" Bu, bir yaşam biçimiydi, denizde sürdürülen bir yaşam biçimi; eşitlikti, paylaşımdı, birliktelikti, ortak huzurdu... Kötülük edenin icabına hemen bakıldığı, adil insanların duracakları yeri bildikleri, kaya gibi sağlam bir kardeşlikti muhakkak.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“İnsan zamanın dışında kalıp sabırlı mı olmalı, yoksa zamanın piyonu mu olmalı? Köklerini, şüphesiz ki ahmak ve dönek bir toplumun derinliklerine salmak kişiye nasıl bir fayda sağlardı?”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“Kadınları bilirsin, küçük kedileri pek severler... Yardıma muhtaç şeylere bayılır onlar. Ama erkeklere geldi mi iş değişir, erkeğin zalim olanını tercih ederler.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother

“O Satan! Mephisto! Judas! O Benaiah! O evil eyes that glint beneath the lights! O clink of silver! O darkness, O death, O hell! Sheathed knives and chained wallets: lustful, grabbing, cheating, killing, hating, laughing in the lights . . .”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel

“He is the antithesis of Voltaire, the child of Leibniz.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel

“I haven't the courage, or perhaps the hardness, to withstand the tremendous pathos of this life. I love life's casual beauty- fear its awful strength.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Sea Is My Brother