David Gemmell Quotes

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast.

For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way - or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

I could never identify with that word, 'weak.'

Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that's not a weakness.

It's one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we're all human at the end of the day. We all got feelings... all of that.

There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting them as they really are.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.