Jack London

"The proper function of man is to live, not to speculate about living."

"I am Jack London, socialist and revolutionist."

"There is no sin but ignorance."

"Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom."

"The deeper he went, the more he learned of the wildness of life."

"All his days he had wanted to live by the law of love, but he failed."

"I will sleep without dreams and without waking, and then one day I will wake no more."

"The world is large and there are many games to play."

"The strong shall flourish in the struggle for survival."

"To write is to express one's truth; to live is to become it."

"The master and the serf could not dine together without one of them ceasing to be."

"I do not believe in the profit motive."

"I do not believe in the supernatural, but in the natural that is as yet supernatural."

"The longing to escape life is a true sign of its presence within."

"A man must have courage as a man must have breath."

"I have desired to go where the trades wind blow."

"The art of living is the art of giving."

"One cannot be pessimistic and live an abundant life."

"In the moment of knowledge, a man is not learning but becoming."

"The sun is setting on an epoch of madness."

"I want to be a writer, not a talker."

"The most tragic thing I know about human nature is that all that we really want is to be loved."

"You cannot get something for nothing—this is a law of nature."

"What lies beyond the human experience is unknowable to the human mind."

"The great majority of mankind is grinding out its existence in a kind of automatism."

"One must work, or one must fight, or one must shirk."

"Peace is earned through understanding, not through force."

"The most pathetic thing in the world is a failure who seeks justification."

"Love and hunger rule the world."

"I am not made of the stuff of a martyr."