“Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand as well.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. — Jack London Copy Share Image
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Man always gets less than he demands from life; and so little do they demand, that the less than little they get… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“There is a patience of the wild--dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself--that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes," he shut off her attempted objection. "You would have destroyed my writing and my career. Realism is imperative to my… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“On Religion and Science: "You cannot answer Berkeley, even if you have annihilated Kant, and yet, perforce, you assume that Berkeley is… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“On Women: "What do you mean?" Martin asked curiously, passing him a glass. "Here, down this and be good." "Because–" Brissenden sipped… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Here was intellectual life, he thought, and here was beauty, warm and wonderful as he had never dreamed it could be. He… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Do you know that the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated, since… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“And all the while the four men lay beside me and watched and made no move. Nor did I move, and without shame I… — Jack London Copy Share
“As the days went by, the evolution of LIKE into LOVE was accelerated. White Fang himself began to grow aware of it, though in… — Jack London Copy Share
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share
“But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God… — Jack London Copy Share
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of… — Jack London Copy Share
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat. — Jack London Copy Share
“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in… — Jack London Copy Share
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only… — Jack London Copy Share
“I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the… — Jack London Copy Share
“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” — Jack London Copy Share
“Strength is an empty shell. One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. Show me a man… — Jack London Copy Share
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of… — Jack London Copy Share
