Quotes by Jack London

It is a plain moral truth that the only way to deserve happiness is to live honestly and soberly.

The hand of the living God is at the throat of the people."

I ride over my beautiful ranch. Between my legs is a beautiful horse.

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.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze.

The hand of the living God is at the throat of the people.

And then, at the end of the longest day, the inexorable nights closed in.

I ride over my beautiful ranch. Between my legs is a beautiful horse. The air is crystal clear.

The logic of the wild, and the ferocity of the wild, teach us to snarl in our sleep.

It is a plain moral truth that the only way to deserve happiness is to live honestly and soberly

He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like the wild things, he possessed the instinct of death.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

To be able to forget means sanity.

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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

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

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.

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.

Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.

The call of the wild.

The man with the club is a law-maker, a law-enforcer, and a law-giver.

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

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

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

You can't wait for inspiration to hit you, you have to go out and get it.

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

Nếu tiền đến cùng danh vọng, có danh vọng. Nếu tiền không đến cùng danh vọng, có tiền.

Và tôi đã sống thế nào? Chính trực và rộng mở, dù lỗ mãng. Tôi không sợ cuộc đời. Tôi không thu mình khỏi nó. Tôi đón nhận nó như chính nó với cái giá của nó. Và tôi không xấu hổ vì nó. Đó là cuộc đời của tôi.

Cuộc sống không phải luôn luôn là vấn đề bạn có bao nhiêu bài tốt, mà đôi khi là việc bạn chơi quân bài xấu tốt thế nào.