Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONDon’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 LONDONGo strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
JACK LONDONI believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
JACK LONDONYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDONNot all the monsters have fangs.
JACK LONDONI would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDONThe function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDONShow me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDONI would rather be ashes than dust.
JACK LONDONHe was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
JACK LONDONA man with a club is a law-maker.
JACK LONDONI’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 LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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 LONDONIt’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
JACK LONDON