242 Quotes by David Gemmell

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

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

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

Hate is the father of all evil.

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

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

War.Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror.

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.