242 Quotes by David Gemmell

It will not go out,’ said Keeva, putting her hand on Ustarte’s shoulder. ‘He is a hero. My uncle told me that heroes have special souls that are blessed by the Source. He was a wise man, my uncle.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

I do not believe that the way to fight great evil is to commit a lesser one.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

I don't want eternal life. I want a little joy, a large amount of pleasure, and a swift death once I lose the appetite for either.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

How simple love would be, Younger Brother, if we only had to bestow it on those who deserved it. Yet what would it be worth? If you gave a poor man a silver coin then that would be a gift. If you expected him to pay you back, then that would make it a loan. We do not loan our love, Lantern. We give it freely.

Yes, it would have been good, he thought, to spend quiet years with his family, waiting for his diseased heart to fail as he sat in his chair staring at the mountains. But this was better. This was life! Not the killing and the terrified screams of dying men suddenly facing the awesome spectre of their own mortality. No, but to face his fears as a man, to stand at the brink of the abyss and refuse to be cowed or beaten down.