David Clement-Davies > Quotes

“know that without night there is no day; without lies, no truth;without despair,no hope. Beware above all of hate, but call to its opposite too. For all things have an opposite and, if you choose it, with will and care, you may turn one thing into its reflection.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight

“...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight

“Stones are raw, they blunt my paw,
but words will never hurt me.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight

“Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight

“Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?"
Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always fear."
"But why must I fear him?" asked Rannoch.
"Because, my little one...man is cruel and cold. He eats up everything he touches. He enslaves Lera and breaks the laws of the forest. Because, Rannoch, he is the only creature that hunts without need.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fire Bringer

“That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.”
― David Clement-Davies

“It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight

“But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story...”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight

“Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“Death,' whispered Tarlar, 'you do not fear it, Fell? By water, or any other way?'

'What is to fear?" answered the black wolf. 'If it is an end, then so be it. For there is no pain in that, except the pain left to the living... And if death is not an end, then what more than a wonderful journey...”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fire Bringer

“Christians believe that God came amongst us as a man, do they not? Yet the Muselmen say he was only a prophet, and that God has no name...We fight and kill each other so readily, yet if I had been born in the East, would I not believe the stories they believe, and if they had been born here, would they not be Christians?”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“So let me give you a blessing. When everything around you seems conspiring to tear out your heart and your mind, or show you that there is nothing but power and survival, look up there, Kar, at the moon in the giant sky. Hold it as a truth, beyond what we are too blind or ignorant to see all around us. Hold it like love, Kar, and Remember me.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight

“...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight

“The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?'

'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell

“The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.”
― David Clement-Davies

“Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.”
― David Clement-Davies

“Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.”
― David Clement-Davies, Fell