Jack Kerouac Quotes

I do not know who I am tonight.

Am I lost or just less found?

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.

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.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

There are a lot of coming out videos of people who are gay or lesbian, and they're so confident. But it made me cry because I'm not that. I don't know who I am 100 percent.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.

For quite some time, I lost my way, not only business-wise but personally.