David Gemmell Quotes
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When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.
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Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
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The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
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Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.
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A problem shared is a problem doubled.
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You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.
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Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.
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Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
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Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise.
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While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.
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Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?
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love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.
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Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.
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Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.
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I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages.
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[H]e who fears to lose will never win.
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Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.
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If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
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A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
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Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
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Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.
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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
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Death haunts everyone and never fails.
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But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle.
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The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.
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I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.
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I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
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Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.
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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.
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