David Gemmell on Love
Browse 9 quotations attributed to David Gemmell, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to David Gemmell, entry #231762: "This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion."
Attributed to David Gemmell, entry #226465: "'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.'"
9 Quotes by David Gemmell on Love
"This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion."
"'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.'"
"A lovers' spat," he said. "You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really."
"We are full of dreams We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need."
"...love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love."
"Aye, it is hard when those we love leave the world. No denying it."
"Yes, love can heal the wounds of hatred. Love can eradicate lust and greed. Through love a man of evil can come to find repentance and redemption. For the Source abandons no man."
"Never let anger, or outrage, or fear affect you. That is easy advice to give, but hard to follow. Men will bait you, they will laugh at you, they will jeer. But it is just noise, Kiall. They will hurt the people you love. They will do anything to make you angry or emotional. But the only way you can make them suffer is to win. And to do that you must remain cool."
"And now I am going to tell you a great truth, and if you are wise, you will take it to your heart. All men are stupid. They are full of fear and insecurity—it makes them weak. Always the other man seems stronger, more confident, more capable. It is a lie of the worst kind, for we lie to ourselves ... How do you know? You do not! You listened to the voice of your inadequacy, and because you believed, you are in my power. If I draw my sword, you are dead!"