Quotes from Jack London

voraciously.

Morality is only evidence of low blood pressure.

Questi uomini che stanno per uccidermi sembrano spaventati dalla mia morte.

I've — well, I've been down in the Pit," Joe succeeded in blurting out. "I must confess that you look like it — very much like it indeed." Mr. Bronson spoke severely, but if ever by great effort he conquered a smile, that was the time. "I presume," he went on, "that you do not refer to the abiding-place of sinners, but rather to some definite locality in San Francisco. Am I right?

It was easy. All men must die. He did not complain. It was the way of life, and it was just. He had been born close to the earth, close to the earth had he lived, and the law thereof was not new to him. It was the law of all flesh. Nature was not kindly to the flesh.

Il apprit rapidement bien des choses, et généralisa beaucoup, de façon souvent erronée. On peut retrouver trace de ses conclusions hâtives dans les pages de l'Ouvrier malhabile. Il s'en tira cependant, à la manière des gens de son espèce, en présentant ses généralisations comme des essais.

Se é isto que a civilização tem para oferecer ao homem, então mil vezes o estado selvagem, a nudez e os uivos, mil vezes viver no deserto e na brenha, no covil e na caverna, em vez de trucidado pela máquina e pelo Abismo!

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 - White Fang

lifts up a prophet to-day that it may stone him to-morrow; which clamours for the book everybody else is reading, for no reason under the sun save that everybody else is reading it. This is the class of whim and caprice, of fad and vogue, the unstable, incoherent, mob-mouthed, mob-minded mass, the "monkey-folk," if you please, of these latter days.

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, and not in the significances.

La raza humana está condenada a hundirse cada vez más en la noche primitiva antes de recomenzar algún día un nuevo ascenso sangriento hacia la civilización.

El trabajo de hombre es efímero y se desvanece como la espuma del mar... Así se desvaneció nuestra civilización grandiosa y colosal.

He came to her breathing of large airs and great spaces. The blaze of tropic suns was in his face, and in his swelling, resilient muscles was the primordial vigor of life. He was marred and scarred by that mysterious world of rough men and rougher deeds, the outposts of which began beyond her horizon.

Todos, el bueno y el malvado, el fuerte y el débil, el que amaba la vida y el que la maldecía, todos, todos acababan muriendo.

Thornton tenía la duda pintada claramente en el semblante, pero aquello despertó su espíritu de lucha, el que hace crecer al hombre ante las dificultades, le impide aceptar lo imposible y lo hace sordo a todo lo que no sea el clamor de la batalla.

Parables don't lie, but liars will parable."—Lip-King.

Youth which lives by hope is riven by unrest.

Hayat?nda ahlâk timsali olarak hareket etmiyorsan ahlâk kurallar? boÅŸunad?r. Bizler öÄŸretilerini hayatlar?nda uygulamama cüretini gösteren öÄŸretmenlerden miyiz yoksa?

It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

Suç hakikaten de hastal???n ta kendisi. Suçlu, yani haks?z davranan kiÅŸi, hastad?r ve bu yüzden gerektiÄŸince tedavi edilmelidir ki hastal???ndan kurtulabilsin.

Such was the lesson that was quickly borne in upon him. It came hard, going as it did, counter to much that was strong and dominant in his own nature; and, while he disliked it in the learning of it, unknown to himself he was learning to like it. It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone.

Zaten bütün âhlakç?lar kaç?k damgas? yemiÅŸtir, diyerek at?ld?. Daha doÄŸrusu, dönemlerinin s?radan insanlar? taraf?ndan kaç?k diye nitelendirilmiÅŸlerdir.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

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, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.