Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

“A Druid in training must be a bard before he is a priest, for music is one of the keys to the laws of the universe.”

“A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain”

“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.”

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

“[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.”

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

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

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 accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods.Lancelot smiled bitterly. ‘Perhaps a religion which demands that every man must work though lifetime after lifetime for his own salvation is too much for mankind. They want not to wait for Gods justice but to see it now. And that is the lure which this new breed of priests has promised them.Morgaine knew that he spoke truth, and bowed her head in anguish. ‘And since their view of a God is what shapes their reality, so it shall be–the Goddess was real while mankind still paid homage to her, and created her form for themselves. Now they will make for themselves the kind of God they think they want–the kind of God they deserve, perhaps.Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrows headlines as near as this mornings coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of young people feel at age with a changing

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 blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.

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

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...

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.

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 you have actually done so.

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.