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David Gemmell Quotes | Quotes said by David Gemmell

  • David Gemmell Quote #1

    ... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods


  • David Gemmell Quote #2

    A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

  • David Gemmell Quote #3

    A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear

  • David Gemmell Quote #4

    All things that live must die. Man alone it seems lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on – otherwise he is useless. For most men, that purpose revolves around marriage and children who will carry on his seed. For others it is an ideal – a dream, if you like. Each of us here believes in a concept of honor: that it is a man’s duty to do that which is right and just; that might alone is not enough. We have all transgressed at some time. We have stolen, lied, cheated – even killed – for our own ends. But ultimately we return to our beliefs. We judge ourselves more harshly than others can judge us. We know that death is preferable to betrayal of that which we hold dear.

  • David Gemmell Quote #5

    An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

  • David Gemmell Quote #6

    Be lucky, Xander, and be brave. You will find that bravery and luck are often bedfellows.

  • David Gemmell Quote #7

    Danger lies in the extreme. A man who is always cruel is evil, a man who is always compassionate will be taken advantage of. It is more a question of balance, or harmony, if you will.

  • David Gemmell Quote #8

    Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

  • David Gemmell Quote #9

    Fear cannot be trusted...It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.

  • David Gemmell Quote #10

    Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

  • David Gemmell Quote #11

    Hate is the father of all evil.

  • David Gemmell Quote #12

    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.

  • David Gemmell Quote #13

    How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

  • David Gemmell Quote #14

    How simple love would be, Younger Brother, if we only had to bestow it on those who deserved it. Yet what would it be worth? If you gave a poor man a silver coin then that would be a gift. If you expected him to pay you back, then that would make it a loan. We do not loan our love, Lantern. We give it freely.

  • David Gemmell Quote #15

    I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

  • David Gemmell Quote #16

    I remember an old teacher of mine once saying that behind every dark cloud the sun was just waiting to boil you to death.

  • David Gemmell Quote #17

    I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

  • David Gemmell Quote #18

    I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

  • David Gemmell Quote #19

    If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

  • David Gemmell Quote #20

    In any broth, the scum [politicians] always rises to the top.

  • David Gemmell Quote #21

    Is it not obvious? What is life but a betrayal? We start out young, full of hope. The sun is good, the world awaits us. But every passing year shows how small you are, how insignificant against the power of the seasons. Then you age. Your strength fails and the world laughs at you through the jeers of younger men. And you die. Alone. Unfulfilled. But sometimes . . . sometimes there will come a man who is not insignificant. He can change the world, rob the seasons of their power. He is the sun.

  • David Gemmell Quote #22

    It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.
    It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'
    Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

  • David Gemmell Quote #23

    It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and you are no different from any other race. Family? Has Priam not killed wayward sons? When a king dies do his sons not go to war with one another to succeed him? Men speak of how you reacted to your father's death. They say it was amazing, for you did not order your little brother's execution. Your race thrives on blood and death, Helikaon. Your ships raid the coasts of other nations, stealing slaves, burning and plundering. Warriors brag of how many men they have killed, and women they have raped. Almost all of your kings either seized their thrones with swords and murder, or are children of men who seized power with swords and murder. So put all this talk of honour to one side.

  • David Gemmell Quote #24

    Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

  • David Gemmell Quote #25

    Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.

  • David Gemmell Quote #26

    Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.

  • David Gemmell Quote #27

    Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

  • David Gemmell Quote #28

    No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?

  • David Gemmell Quote #29

    Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

  • David Gemmell Quote #30

    Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billowed over the sea. Argurios could not believe what he was watching. At least fifty helpless men were dying in agony. One man managed to free himself and leap into the sea. Amazingly, when he surfaced the flames were still consuming him.
    All along the beach there was silence as the stunned crowd watched the magical fires burning the galley and it's crew.

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