"Big Sur" Quotes

All of life is a foreign country.

I am surrounded by the music of the spheres and by myself. I am a big sur of the soul.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I have a vision of the future, chum, and it’s a vision completely devoid of the vulgar decencies of capitalistic society.

I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

I can’t bear the silent loneliness of my Apartment, I can hardly bear it, it’s like being dead.

The stars are the street lights of eternity.

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.