One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. — Jack London Copy Share Image
He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back… — 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
“All I wanted,' London said later, 'was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes And yet be patient.… — 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
“At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among 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
“O trabalho do homem é efémero e esvai-se como a espuma do mar... Sim, é isto mesmo. Neste planeta, o homem domesticou… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Strength is an empty shell. One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. Show me… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love… — 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
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
Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt… — 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
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
The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,… — 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
“Always has woman crouched close to earth like a partridge hen mothering her young; always has my wantonness of roving led me… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I shall never forget, in that moment, how instantly conscious I became of my manhood. The primitive deeps of my nature stirred.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world. There is only so much… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“We were talking about this yesterday," he said. "I held that life was a ferment, a yeasty something which devoured life that… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but to the wolf and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity, - the ceaseless flow of the tides, the fury of storm,… — 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
