Best Jack London Quotes
- But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading… All
- He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving… Alone
- On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down… Aim
- It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the… Ch
- She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs,… Avoiding
- Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves,… All
- He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The… Always Striving
- Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless… Cave
- His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it… Abiding
- The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT… Aim
- It was the worst hurt he had ever known. Ever Known
- They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans] Funny
- But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego… All
- Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single… Amount
- He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring,… All
- His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him. Bondage
- White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. Fang
- Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his… Body
- The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after… All
- This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone. Abandon
- The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. Funny
- Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing… All
- But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is… Dead
- You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and… Aloft
- ...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. Besetting