Jack London
Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 January 1876
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Jack London quotes about
strength shells empty
Strength is an empty shell.
dream real childhood
Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.
misunderstood mercy made
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
nice past men
As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback. The slaves won't stand for it. They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before he gets astride. You can't get away from them, and you'll have to swallow the whole slave-morality. It's not a nice mess, I'll allow. But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.
womb deeper the-wild-nature
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.
doe achieve existence
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
abiding fear-of-the-unknown appearance
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
wall light way
He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.
couple men order
The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.
mistake book my-mistakes
My mistake was in ever opening the books.
immoral
He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
companion
Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
spring winter silence
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
half sparks bags
They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.