💬 Quotes

"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew."

"He was mastered by the sheer intimacy of the wild, and he was filled with a great, strange longing."

"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise."

"Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth."

"He had done no wrong, but he had been treated as a criminal, and he had learned that the world was a place of force."

"I often think it’s not so much the things you do in life that you regret; it’s the things you don’t do."

"I don't hate you. I only hate what you've done to me."

"He was a collector. That was the root of it. He collected butterflies, and then he collected me."

"It is a terrible thing to be a woman, to be an object, to be a butterfly pinned to a board."

"I like the common people, but I don't like the common mind. And he was the common mind."

"Everything is a struggle between the Few and the Many. The Few are the sensitive, the clear-sighted, the alive; the Many are the blind, the dull, the dead."

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."

"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love."

"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears."

"I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy also."

"People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles."

"Disappear here."