David Gemmell Quotes

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray yo...

One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands...

We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough - we live...

Odysseus draped the towel over his shoulders and stretched his back. "You remember practicing with w...

Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who w...

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

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

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

You are a Chosen Man. You are Parmenion, the Death of Nations. A hundred thousand souls will yousend...

Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and ...

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these thing...

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. W...

She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat,...

It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the ...

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But thes...

There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to kee...

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.It seems to be true,' he admitted. ...

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

How simple love would be, Younger Brother, if we only had to bestow it on those who deserved it. Yet...

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

What is your name?"Why?"So I can mark your grave...

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

Hate is the father of all evil.

Danger lies in the extreme. A man who is always cruel is evil, a man who is always compassionate wil...

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

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

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

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these a...

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it...

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovere...

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

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one d...

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

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

Is it not obvious? What is life but a betrayal? We start out young, full of hope. The sun is good, t...

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live...

Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billow...

The world would be a sadder place without stories.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

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

Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to ...

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

All things that live must die. Man alone it seems lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And ...

Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger....