White Fang Quotes

“He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it.”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:reality faith

“Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in...”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:nature

“Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:nature

“Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:work obedience

“The clay of White Fang had been moulded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy of all his kind.”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:loneliness

“In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:man

“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:trust

“His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience.”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:law obedience

“In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been so moulded in the making.”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:responsibility

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