David Gemmell Quotes

All beauty is sad. For it fades.

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

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.

I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages.

I remember a tutor who told me that all the world's hunters have eyes that faced front: lions, hawks, wolves, men ... He said man was no different from the tiger. We are nature's killers, and we have great appetites for it ... Listen, Rayvan, the beast is in all of us. We do our best in life, but often we are mean, or petty, or needlessly cruel. We don't mean to be, but that's the way we are.

Greed got me into this," Powdermill said, mournfully. "I swear to the Source that if I get out of this alive, I'll never give in to greed again."
Huntsekker laughed. "We are what we are, little man. We won't change. Now, set to and see something we can take to the Moidart.

No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.

[H]e who fears to lose will never win.

Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.

A problem shared is a problem doubled.

Blood always aids blood, my friend.

Why do they do it?" whispered Horeb. "Their eyes, you mean?" said Rek. "Yes. How can a man put out his own eyes?" "Damned if I know. They say it aids their visions." "Sounds about as sensible as cutting off your staff in order to aid your sex life.

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.

...the baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

I am not going to kill a man because he won't let us rob him." "Then go back to your mother and send for a man who wants to win.