Quotes from Jack London

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

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

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

Affluence means influence.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.

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