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Jack London Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
— Jack London, Quotes From an Icon for Rugged Individualism—Jack London
Tagged: Life, Self-Awarenes
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
— Jack London, Jack London: A Life
Tagged: Poetic, Self-awareness, Desire
“He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.”
— Jack London, White Fang
Tagged: Silence, Wildness, Deceitful
“I wandered all these years among
A world of women, seeking you”
— Jack London, The Sea Wolf
Tagged: wandered, years, Seeking
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well”
— Jack London, To Build a Fire
Tagged: Life, good cards, bad cards
“It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.”
— Jack London, The Iron Heel
Tagged: Brave, Die, coward, beg
“No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional”
— Jack London, The Iron Heel
Tagged: Insult, Emotional
“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone”
— Jack London, White Fang
Tagged: Abandon, Surrender, absolute trust
“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life”
— Jack London, The Call of the Wild
Tagged: Winter, Spring, Awakening, Life
“No man makes opportunity. All the great men ever did was know it when it came to them.”
— Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: strategy
“The world is as full of brutality as the sea is full of motion. And some men are made sick by the one, and some by the other.”
— Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Life
“The battle is not always to the strong. We have not the strength with which to fight this man; we must dissimulate, and win, if we win we can, by craft.”
— Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: strategy
“Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.”
— Jack London, The Call of the Wild (Global Classics)
Tagged: first lines of books, Newspapers, trouble, San Diego
“He who steals my purse steals my right to live, For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life”
— Jack London, The Sea Wolf
Tagged: Stealing, imperils, Life
“[Final tests of truth] Can we make it work? Can we trust our lives to it?”
— Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: strategy
“The wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
— Jack London, White Fang
Tagged: Wild, Lingering, strength, Wolf
“Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others”
— Jack London, Martin Eden
Tagged: limited, Mind, Limitations
“I was jealous; therefore I loved.”
— Jack London, The Sea Wolf
Tagged: Jealous, Loved
“He was beaten; but he was not broken”
— Jack London, The Call of the Wild
Tagged: Beaten, broken
“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
— Jack London, The Call of the Wild
Tagged: How To Think, Nature
“Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.”
— Jack London, Jack London : Novels and Stories : Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories (Library of America)
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Life
“[Johnson was] this amazing negro from Texas, this black man with the unfailing smile, this king of fighters and monologists... No one understands him, this man who smiles. Well, the story of the fight is the story of a smile. If ever a man won by nothing more than fatiging [sic] than a smile, Johnson won today.”
— Jack London, Jack London's Racial Lives: A Critical Biography
Tagged: Amor fati, Happiness
“Man is a natural gambler, and life is the biggest take he can lay.”
— Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Life
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