Jack London quotes, with sources
American novelist and journalist, author of The Call of the Wild. Here are 4 short quotes by Jack London (1876 – 1916), each with the work it comes from, drawn from 4 sources.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.
Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
Sources
- Interview, The Bulletin, San Francisco, 2 December 1916
- Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard, 21 August 1903
- The Call of the Wild, 1903
- White Fang, 1906
Themes
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