Quotes from David Gemmell

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

Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.

All beauty is sad. [...] For it fades.

May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.

A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

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

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.

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.

Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.

It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.