Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”

“By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”

“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.”

“And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin”

“By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It ...”

“They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will ...”

“ A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go....”

“Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the bla...”

“God is one and there is but one God all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand...”

“Love is the only prayer I know.”

“My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.”

“No house is big enough for the rule of two women.”

“...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.”

“Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.”

“Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before...”

“And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the Druids, giving instruction in the secret wisdom to the young priestesses, had said, If ...”

“And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...”

“Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.”

“Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.”

“ They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?...know it is the understan...”