Jack London Quotes

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

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

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

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

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

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

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