Beat Generation Quotes

Beat Generation Quote of the day

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.

The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.