Beat Quotes

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too!Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that?Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life!Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just because you can't meet your goals.Kyo: THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF YOURS REALLY PISSES ME OFF!Yuki: And that revolting thought process of yours pisses me off.

~ Natsuki Takaya

A true friend doesn't have guts, they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

~ Jack Kerouac

Wake up. If your eyes are sleeping then wipe them gently. You need to be awake for this. It is a matter of life and death. Wake up! If your mind is sleeping then shake it quickly. You need to be awake for this. It is a matter of life and death. Wake up, I said! If your heart is sleeping then beat your chest! You need to be awake for life! You need to be awake for love! It is a matter of living and being alive.

~ Kamand Kojouri

See it was like this when we waltz into this place.A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-stepAnd I says Dad let's cutbut then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really existWow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.

~ Jack Kerouac

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

~ Jack Kerouac

I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy to wrestle that which I fear into the dirt that is soon to become the road underneath my feet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.

~ Maynard James Keenan

He looked into her eyes and said When everything falls apart, and the day my soul refuses to move any further, I'll come back home. A home that fills me with courage and love. My home neither has doors and nor windows, All it have is walls. The walls that beat every second. And it has a pair of eyes too. Through which I can see this world more beautifully than I ever did.

~ Akshay Vasu

Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The sky blue strengthens slowly, the dawn light rosy and pale the summer song of our romance begin to unveil...with every heart beat and the waves' breath...the time stood in harmony still. Your morning kiss my hands could feel...by your lips soft, so warm, so very gentle, nice and full of life...

~ Oksana Rus

For once I want the beat louder than my mind.

~ Irfa Rahat

Eyes and ears are two.Lungs and kidneys, too.I wonder thenwhy we're born with oneheart that skips a beat when hay is here,and beats quickly when you are near.One heart that cracks when you are far, lie to me and leave a scar.I wonder thenwhy we're born with oneheart that gets broken.Was I supposed to find you then?So your heart would make one plus one is twofor me andtwo for you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

So I did something I've never done, and put your live above my own, because no matter how hard I try to convey it, I'm not heartless. I have a heart and... and it beats for you.

~ Emma Winters

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Little beat big When Little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.

~ The Power Of One

Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH.

~ Vikrmn

In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

~ Joyce Johnson

A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.

~ Jack Kerouac

Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

~ Lenore Kandel

Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?

~ Sol Luckman

Like seasonless fowl we migrate…from East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again,for a job,for a friend,for a change,for a kick.

~ Lenore Kandel

Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don't have any record to beat, you can't excel. What is your current standard?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Driving down deserted early morning roads. Round and round. Round downtown. Through naked streets. Lips pursed on two litre bottles of beer, but pursuing the lips of freedom's night. Swapping cars. Winding up at karaoke bars or Bolsi- the best place in town. For the food. For the folk. For the service. For the crema de papaya. And for that late night dawn's whiskey coffee.

~ Harry Whitewolf

The problem with the 11:11 Phenomenon is getting anybody interested in it that hasn't experienced it themselves. Other phenomena, such as U.F.Os or crop circles, are able to be seen. We can debate them. But seeing and being guided by 11:11 is hard to convey to those uninitiated in its ways.

~ Harry Whitewolf

Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten.

~ Harry Whitewolf

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

~ Jack Kerouac

Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.

~ Lenore Kandel

...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...

~ Paul Hoffman

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

~ William S. Burroughs

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

~ Lenore Kandel

There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in himself; this produces a true barrier.

~ Lenore Kandel

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

~ Lenore Kandel

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

~ Margaret Way