Jack London Quotes, Thoughts and images

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Not all the monsters have fangs.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

To be able to forget means sanity.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Affluence means influence.

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

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

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

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

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

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

Strength is an empty shell.