David Gemmell Quotes

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

Opposition work is not without its dangers. But if you've chosen a job like that for yourself, you then subsequently shouldn't spend your time every second thinking, oh my God, what might happen to me? Oh my God, what might happen to me? Your colleagues include quite a large number of war correspondents. Their job is not the least dangerous in the world, either.

It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

Life has to be dangerous.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.