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Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac1922–1969Letter to Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) published in Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1996)
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
Jack Kerouac1922–1969The Dharma Bums (1958)
- Freedom
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
Jack Kerouac1922–1969Desolation Angels (1965)
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 Kerouac1922–1969Big Sur (1962)
- Happiness
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Jack Kerouac1922–1969On the Road (1957), Part Two, Ch. 8
- Change
In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), Ch. 3, p. 80
- Economics
Men will not always die quietly.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VI, p. 228
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khayyam1048–1131The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)In context
- Time
“I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”
Omar Khayyam1048–1131The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)In context
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Journals IV A 164 (1843)
- Philosophy
If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Cobo Center speech (1963)
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Different Seasons (1982)
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Christine (1983), Pt. 1, Ch. 5
- Maturity
When everyone is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Kim (1901), Chapter XIIIn context
- Politics