Jack London Quotes

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.

I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.

It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.