To be able to forget means sanity.
JACK LONDONNo; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
More Jack London Quotes
-
-
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
JACK LONDON -
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
JACK LONDON -
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
JACK LONDON -
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDON -
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.
JACK LONDON -
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDON -
But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDON -
It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
JACK LONDON -
Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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 -
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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 -
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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 -
I would rather be ashes than dust.
JACK LONDON