Jack London Quotes

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.

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

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

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

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

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

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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

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

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

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