Jack London

Strength is an empty shell.

— Jack London

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

— Jack London

“Wakens the ferine strain.”

— Jack London

I was jealous; therefore I loved.

— Jack London

“the human soul is a lonely thing”

— Jack London

“Again from its brumal sleep”

— Jack London

“Well, Buck my boy.”

— Jack London

“The Complete Novels of Jack London”

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

“Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation”

— Jack London

“I wandered all these years among A world of women, seeking you.”

— Jack London

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.”

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle…

— Jack London

“The clay of White Fang had been molded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy…

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

“Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its…

— Jack London

“But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of…

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

“In advance of the dogs, on wide snowshoes, toiled a man. At the rear of the sled toiled a second man. On…

— Jack London

There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians… Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning…

— Jack London

“In dim ways he recognized in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.…

— Jack London

“It was during this period that he might have hearkened to the memories of the lair and the stream and run back…

— Jack London

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every…

— Jack London

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed,…

— Jack London

“Straight away he raced, with Dolly, panting and frothing, one leap behind; nor could she gain on him, so great was his…

— Jack London

“This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of…

— Jack London

“Infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself--navigation, mathematics, science, literature and what not.…

— Jack London

“White Fang was glad to acknowledge his lordship, but it was lordship based upon superior intelligence and brute strength...There were deeps in…

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors,…

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

“He was a ferocious man. He had been ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not…

— Jack London

“Miss West is never idle. Below, in the big after-room, she does her own laundering. Nor will she let the steward touch…

— Jack London