Life Quotes by Jack London

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

— Jack London

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

— Jack London

“Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.”

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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

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“They had seen life, and done deeds, and lived romances, but they did not know it.”

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“Man always gets less than he demands from life.”

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In a saturated population life is always cheap.

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“You must come to read the face of life with understanding.”

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“He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in their significances.”

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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered…

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“Now it happens that I am a fluid sort of an organism, with sufficient kinship with life to fit myself in 'most…

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A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make…

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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was…

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“...his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing…

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“He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty…

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. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from…

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I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of…

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“He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I…

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To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while…

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“He must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It…

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“That was a page read and turned over; I was busy now with this new page, and when the engine whistled on…

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He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall…

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“Definitions must agree, not with egos, but with life. Mr. Burroughs goes on the basis that a definition is something hard and…

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“Oh!--and I speak out of later knowledge--Heaven forefend me from the most of the average run of male humans who are not…

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You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live…

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“But, - and there it is, - we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens…

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“In this manner had fought forgotten ancestors. They quickened the old life within him, the old tricks which they had stamped into…

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All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me.…

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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of…

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“Why didn’t you dare it before? he asked harshly. When I hadn’t a job? When I was starving? When I was just…

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“He started for the companion stairs, but turned his head for a final word. "Do you know the only value life has…

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“I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and…

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“You have read Darwin," I said. "But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton…

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“This man had saved his life, which was something; but, further, he was the ideal master. Other men saw to the welfare…

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“Every once in a while, in newspapers, magazines, and biographical dictionaries, I run upon sketches of my life, wherein, delicately phrased, I…

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“Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world. There is only so much…

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“We were talking about this yesterday," he said. "I held that life was a ferment, a yeasty something which devoured life that…

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“I am that man, the sum of him, the all of him, the hairless biped who struggled upward from the slime and…

— Jack London