Jack London Quotes & Sayings

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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

“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.”

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.”

“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.”

“Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.”

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

“Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?”