I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONWhere others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
More Jack London Quotes
-
-
I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
JACK LONDON -
To be able to forget means sanity.
JACK LONDON -
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDON -
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDON -
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDON -
He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
JACK LONDON -
Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
JACK LONDON -
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.
JACK LONDON -
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDON -
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDON -
I would rather be ashes than dust.
JACK LONDON -
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
JACK LONDON -
She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
JACK LONDON -
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
JACK LONDON -
Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
JACK LONDON -
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
JACK LONDON -
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDON -
The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDON -
Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDON -
Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDON -
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON -
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
JACK LONDON -
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
JACK LONDON -
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
JACK LONDON -
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
JACK LONDON -
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDON