Jack London: Trending quotes (page 2)

“It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself”

“He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.”

“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.”

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”

“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”

“Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.”

“He 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.”

“A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.”

“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.”

“No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.”

“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.”

“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”

“The function of man is to live, not to exist.”

“My mistake was in ever opening the books.”

“They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.”

“Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.”

“So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.”

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”

“more you drink
more you want”