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Him Quotes by Jack London
- There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy…
- He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.
- 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…
- 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…
- The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
- No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I…
- The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This…
- He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as…
- The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things,…
- Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
- [Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the…
- Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
More Him Quotes
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden