A Collection of Stories Quotes

“There were Tommy Burns and that Yankee nigger, Jack Johnson—they rode about in motor-cars.”
― Jack London, The Complete Short Stories of Jack London

“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.”
― Jack London, The Complete Short Stories of Jack London

“And he dreamed as only age can dream upon the colossal futility of youth.”
― Jack London, The Complete Short Stories of Jack London

“It was easy. All men must die. He did not complain. It was the way of life, and it was just. He had been born close to the earth, close to the earth had he lived, and the law thereof was not new to him. It was the law of all flesh. Nature was not kindly to the flesh.”
― Jack London, The Complete Short Stories of Jack London

“To him who hears for the first time this weird song, is told the first and greatest secret of the Northland; to him who has heard it often, it is the solemn knell of lost endeavor. It is the plaint of tortured souls, for in it is invested the heritage of the North, the suffering of countless generations—the warning and the requiem to the world's estrays.”
― Jack London, The Complete Short Stories of Jack London

“Thornton tenía la duda pintada claramente en el semblante, pero aquello despertó su espíritu de lucha, el que hace crecer al hombre ante las dificultades, le impide aceptar lo imposible y lo hace sordo a todo lo que no sea el clamor de la batalla.”
― Jack London, The Complete Short Stories of Jack London

“They were not.  In view of this”
― Jack London, A Collection of Stories

“Man”
― Jack London, A Collection of Stories