Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand. — 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
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence. — 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
“Now it happens that I am a fluid sort of an organism, with sufficient kinship with life to fit myself in 'most… — 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
“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
“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
“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 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 must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I… — Jack London Copy Share Image
To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through… — 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
“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
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live… — 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
“In this manner had fought forgotten ancestors. They quickened the old life within him, the old tricks which they had stamped into… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Definitions must agree, not with egos, but with life. Mr. Burroughs goes on the basis that a definition is something hard and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Oh!--and I speak out of later knowledge--Heaven forefend me from the most of the average run of male humans who are not… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only… — 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
“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
“I am that man, the sum of him, the all of him, the hairless biped who struggled upward from the slime and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Compared with White Fang, they were frail and flabby, and clutched life without any strength in their grip. White Fang had come… — 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
“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
“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
