Jack London Quotes

Jack London (12)

Birth:	12th January, 1876
Death:	22nd November, 1916
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Essayist, Journalist, Novelist, Writer

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• 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

  Topics in Life

• You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  Jack London

  Topics in Motivational

  Tags in Writing

• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

  Jack London

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Circumstance, Holding, Card

• The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

  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

• San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

  Jack London

• One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  Jack London

• If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

  Jack London

• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

  Jack London

• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  Jack London

• Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

  Jack London

• Affluence means influence.

  Jack London