On the Road Quotes

You can’t teach the old maestro a new tune.[repeated line]

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad.

We all must admit that everything is fine and there’s no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we’re not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.

Things are so hard to figure when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.