Jack London Quotes
Most popular Jack London Quotes
The Call of the Wild.
Affluence means influence.
The proper function of man is to live, not exist.
Feelings; the hardest thing in the world to put in a words.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
To be able to forget means sanity. Incessantly to remember means obsession, lunacy.
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British Army. The modern strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his children and his fellow men for an unfulfilled promise from his employer, trust or corporation.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
