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Jack London Quotes about Life

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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London
Inspirational, Life, Ambition
Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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

Jack London
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

Jack London
Life, Hurt, Games
Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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
Life, Afar, Facts
Jack London, Anna B. Strunsky, Anna Strunsky Walling, Douglas Robillard (1990). “The Kempton-Wace Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

Jack London
Life, Hands, Rooms
Jack London (2016). “The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

Jack London
Life, Whales, Justice

The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

Jack London
Life, Father, Opportunity
Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.552, Delphi Classics

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

Jack London
Life, Stars, Perfect
Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.25, Lulu.com

I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

Jack London
Life, Spiritual, Sweet
Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7429, Delphi Classics

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

Jack London
Life, Beautiful, World
Jack London (1983). “The call of the wild ; The cruise of the 'Dazzler'”

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