Desolation Angels

Last night I finally finished "Desolation Angels" from one of my favourite authors: Jack Kerouac. It's the 8th book I read from him, and as always it wasn't a bit of a let down. Here are some of my favourite quotes:

"But I will be the Void, moving without having moved."

"Desolation Adventure finds me finding at the bottom of myself abysmal nothingness, worse than that no illusion even."

"Rucksack Revoluton! Going up to the hills to meditate and ignore society."

"The Vision of freedom of eternity which I saw and which all wilderness mermitage sainds have seen, is of little use in cities and warring societies such as we have. [...] Time enough to die in ignorance, but now that we live what shall we celebrate, what shall we say? What to do?"

"I see the big sad invisible wings on all the shoulders and I feel bad they'Re invisible and of no earthly use and never were and all we're doing is fighting to our deaths."

"'I don't know, I don't care and it doesn't matter' will be the final human prayer."

"You learn pure things on the mountain, don't you? Don't you feel that you appreciate life more?"

"If you can't have fun, turn to religion."

"Desolation is desolation everywhere and desolation is all we got and desolation ain't so bad."

"Being thrown to the crocodiles of life - in the river of life - which is what birth is."

"Now I was alone again. And the same feeling came to me: Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means noting in the end. But what to do instead?"

"Souls in Heaven said: "We want to try mortal existance, O God, Lucifer said it's great!" - Bang, down we fall, to this, to concentration camps, gas ovens, barbed wire, atom bombs."

"Why travel if not like a child?"

"When you're young you work because you think you need the money. When you're old you already know you don't need anything but death, so why work?"

"You gotta have fun, good food, good beds, nothing more. [...] Make yourself a haven in this world and heaven comes after."