Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

“She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.”

“ but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones”

“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...”

“And indeed there is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt Gods goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think, heh h...”

“But even the longest day wears to sunset.”

“And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruction cannot be punishment for sins, but is in the way of all nature.”

“And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.”

“Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Lif...”

“Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.”

“Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.”

“It has never been and never will be easy work! But 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.”

“It has never been, and never will be easy work! But 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.”

“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....”

“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...”

“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 understand...”

“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.”

“… but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones”

“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...”

“It has never been and never will be easy work! But 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.”