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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
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
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
Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.
— David Gemmell
This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.
— David Gemmell
Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.
— David Gemmell
Blood always aids blood, my friend.
— David Gemmell
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
Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.
— David Gemmell
[He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.
— Nikki Gemmell
Kassandra put her arm around her. "One day we will have no bones," the girl said happily, "and our dust will swirl among the stars.
— David Gemmell
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
In any broth, the scum [politicians] always rises to the top.
— David Gemmell
In my experience all women deserve someone better.
— David Gemmell
Get rid of your doubts. Yesterday is dead. Past mistakes are like smoke in the breeze.
— David Gemmell
An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife
— Nikki Gemmell
Have faith in the wisdom of that we call change
— Nikki Gemmell
People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.
— Nikki Gemmell
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
A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
— David Gemmell
The truth? What the Hell is the truth? We're born, we live and we die. Everything else is just shades of opinion.
— David Gemmell
I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
— David Gemmell
You are getting too old for this." "A man is as old as he feels, woman!" "And how old do you feel?" "About ninety.
— David Gemmell
A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.
— David Gemmell
The world would be a sadder place without stories.
— David Gemmell
Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.
— David Gemmell
The very odd thing about sagas [ ... ] is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.
— David Gemmell
The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
— David Gemmell
No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.
— David Gemmell
All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.
— David Gemmell
Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.
— David Gemmell
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
— David Gemmell
[H]e who fears to lose will never win.
— David Gemmell
No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.
— David Gemmell
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
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
An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.
— David Gemmell
I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.
— David Gemmell
Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.
— David Gemmell
You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.
— David Gemmell
I caught a pebble in the moonlight.
— David Gemmell
War.
Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. — David Gemmell
Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. — David Gemmell
Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.
— David Gemmell
When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.
— David Gemmell
[ ... ] In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.
— David Gemmell
And I am in love with light. Lock me in the sunshine.
— Nikki Gemmell
Life without heroic deed is no life at all.
— David Gemmell
We are what we are my boy and wolves is what we are
— David Gemmell
grinned. 'Xenophon taught me that victory is achieved by putting the thought of defeat into the heart of your enemy. To him goes the honour.
— David Gemmell
Death haunts everyone and never fails
— David Gemmell
Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.
— David Gemmell
The tree bark began to move, forming a face of wood.
— David Gemmell
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
I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages.
— David Gemmell
It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.
— David Gemmell
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.
— David Gemmell
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
I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
— David Gemmell
She can't catch on to slumber, the relief of oblivion.
— Nikki Gemmell
Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said ... Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?
— David Gemmell
I tell you, one more insult and I'll take his curling tongs and ram them so far up his arse he'll be able to curl the damned thing from the inside.
— David Gemmell
Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.
— David Gemmell
Love requires a different kind of courage, Andromache.
— David Gemmell
All legends have a base in fact.
— David Gemmell
No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?
— David Gemmell
There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.
— David Gemmell
[F]ear is a great ally.
— David Gemmell
Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
— David Gemmell
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
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
Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.
— David Gemmell
Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.
— David Gemmell
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
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
You can buy gold that is bright as the sun and diamonds as pale as the moon. But you cannot buy the sun. You cannot own the moon. II
— David Gemmell
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.
— David Gemmell
What is your name?"
Why?"
So I can mark your grave... — David Gemmell
Why?"
So I can mark your grave... — David Gemmell
In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.
— David Gemmell
War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?
— David Gemmell
I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks
— David Gemmell
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
— David Gemmell