So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDONI would rather be ashes than dust.
More Jack London Quotes
-
-
Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDON -
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.
JACK LONDON -
White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
JACK LONDON -
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDON -
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDON -
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
JACK LONDON -
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDON -
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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 -
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDON -
To be able to forget means sanity.
JACK LONDON -
Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
JACK LONDON -
A man with a club is a law-maker.
JACK LONDON -
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDON -
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
JACK LONDON