David Gemmell Quotes

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Because I have been lonely, I value love.

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.

No one deserves to die alone. No matter who you are, you deserve to have someone by your side. And as a volunteer with hospice, we provide that love, comfort, and respect.

If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.