I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDONI do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDONThere 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.
JACK LONDONIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
JACK LONDONSocialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
JACK LONDONSome sorts of truth are truer than others.
JACK LONDONSo that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDONMan rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
JACK LONDONIn a saturated population life is always cheap.
JACK LONDONOne cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONThe 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.
JACK LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDONThe greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDONThe aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
JACK LONDONDesire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONLove cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
JACK LONDONThe word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDON