Jack Kerouac Quotes

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

No one to hear, you might as well scream.

I just lay in my room for days ... weeks.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.