Jack London Quotes


There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. Jack London Alive 99
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. Jack London beauty 93
To be able to forget means sanity. Jack London Sanity 93
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London Charity 90
The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck Jack London Novel 88
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. Jack London Ashes 81
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. Jack London Atom 79
He was sounding the deeps of his nature and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he going back into the womb of Time. Jack London Time 63
A man with a club bat is a lawmaker a man to be obeyed but not necessarily conciliated. Jack London Abuse 58
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London Time 57
And at the instant he knew he ceased to know. Jack London Realization 53
He wastes his time over his writing trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. Jack London Intelligence 51
and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred. Jack London Hatred 49
Show me a man with a tattoo and Ill show you a man with an interesting past. Jack London Character 48
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. Jack London Hurt 40
Thirty thousand a year was all right but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value. Jack London Work 39
He was justifying his existence than which life can do no greater for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do. Jack London Potential 35
You cant wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Jack London Motivational 33
The bubbly play of wit the chesty laughs the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse. Jack London Thinking 30

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