Top 100 Gemmell's Quotes

#1. The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #3183
#2. My point is there will always be vile men, just as there will always be men of kindness and compassion ... This world is a troubled, savage, place. It would, however, even be more ghastly if only evil men took time to master weapons. - Waylander from the book Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #22051
#3. Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #42306
#4. The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #45768
#5. Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind ... Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #55067
#6. I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #66164
#7. Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self ... You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

Nikki Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #74805
#8. You don't dare to think ahead too much, for you don't want this melted under the heat of your attention, don't want it gone from your life.

Nikki Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #76955
#9. Boy," said Druss, his eyes cold, "think well about this venture. For make no mistake, you cannot
stand before me and live. No man ever has." The words were spoken softly, yet no one disbelieved the
old man.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #77632
#10. In my experience all women deserve someone better.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #83465
#11. War.
Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #93268
#12. 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

Gemmell's Quotes #97454
#13. Would ride into fire. For Odysseus that whip was pride.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #101389
#14. Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #102767
#15. 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.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #126342
#16. Less of a Galahad than a Lancelot, thought Archer. A flawed knight in a flawed world, unstable yet unyielding.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #143390
#17. Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #147298
#18. Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #176577
#19. 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.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #179428
#20. Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #200036
#21. 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.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #205000
#22. If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #207105
#23. No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #209817
#24. Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever . [ ... ] It never ends. Never ... ever ... be glad to kill.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #211363
#25. We are what we are my boy and wolves is what we are

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #214949
#26. They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #224205
#27. Have faith in the wisdom of that we call change

Nikki Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #227171
#28. Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty miles away.' 'Life is a mystery,' said Powdermill, with a gold-toothed grin. 'It is that, right enough,' agreed Huntsekker.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #234375
#29. Life without heroic deed is no life at all.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #249184
#30. A man must know his limitations.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #253743
#31. [ ... ] In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #264657
#32. Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #268014
#33. I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #304165
#34. So, he feels now, that he doesn't have to try. And you want him more than you ever have before.

Nikki Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #311442
#35. We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #314406
#36. It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #319051
#37. I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantasy genre, anything by R.A. Salvatore or David Gemmell. I've read every single book those writers have written.

Robert Kazinsky

Gemmell's Quotes #321279
#38. We all have scars [ ... ] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #325084
#39. It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #329362
#40. There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #339701
#41. This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #384589
#42. I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #396448
#43. May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #409818
#44. Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #411839
#45. [He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.

Nikki Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #421024
#46. People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.

Nikki Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #423623
#47. Blood always aids blood, my friend.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #427290
#48. Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #428630
#49. A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #429362
#50. Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #431991
#51. What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #449121
#52. The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #463798
#53. Be lucky, Xander, and be brave. You will find that bravery and luck are often bedfellows.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #481268
#54. Listen ... You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #497303
#55. When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #511088
#56. 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.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #541030
#57. No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #544509
#58. Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the Jerusalem man,' among others - but my favourite has to be 'Waylander': Clint Eastwood with a crossbow and the same 'Make my day, punk' attitude.

Neal Asher

Gemmell's Quotes #548419
#59. All legends have a base in fact.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #577696
#60. None of us can choose the manner of our passing.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #589014
#61. You're living your days at the moment how a sheep grazes, meandering, not engaged with anything much.

Nikki Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #589271
#62. 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.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #589762
#63. 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.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #603630
#64. A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #632604
#65. It is said a man doesn't get old while his mother lives. I think it's true. You are always a child in her eyes. It is irritating in the extreme. But you know, when they have gone, you'd give the earth just to hear them treating you like a child once more.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #633619
#66. 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.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #653089
#67. 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.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #654012
#68. In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #654507
#69. A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #678427
#70. Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #700290
#71. A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #726114
#72. It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #743240
#73. No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [ ... ] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #750319
#74. There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #751505
#75. Love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #812666
#76. Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #831450
#77. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #854354
#78. I caught a pebble in the moonlight.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #860083
#79. Most men just react to circumstances, but thinkers create the circumstances. If

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #863580
#80. He'll come because he has to. He'll come because that's what heroes do. They fight for what is right, no matter what the cost. -Galliott (Ravenheart)

Noor A. Jahangir

Gemmell's Quotes #865142
#81. It is said that the gates of paradise can only be opened by the tears of those left behind. I do not know whether that be true. It should be, I think.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #869165
#82. When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #869545
#83. By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest
heroism

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #874294
#84. My enemies can soar into the night like invisible demons, conjure wolf creatures from hell, and read minds. On our side is a god that can lead a man to a ferry!

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #904859
#85. No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #917932
#86. This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #929751
#87. Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #940655
#88. Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #942570
#89. An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1140395
#90. Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1220130
#91. You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1232942
#92. Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1254709
#93. If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras.
"Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever."
"Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1262411
#94. I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1319298
#95. A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness ...

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1334386
#96. Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1554530
#97. Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1556774
#98. I have found in my life, Rek, that there are a few actions which are unforgivable. And certainly there are no words said that carry such a penalty. It is a man's lot, I fear, to strike out when he has suffered hurt.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1573115
#99. I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.

Henry Cavill

Gemmell's Quotes #1660551
#100. It's a funny thing about weaknesses ... Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.

David Gemmell

Gemmell's Quotes #1865409

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