Top 100 Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

52. “For there is no higher religion than the Truth.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

53. “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.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

54. “I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

55. “The man who feels fear without cause is a fool; but the man is twice a fool who does not feel fear when there is cause.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

57. “For ever the world of Fairy drifts further from the world in which the Christ holds sway. I have no quarrel with the Christ, only with his priests, who call the Great Goddess a demon and deny that she ever held power in this world.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

58. “On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

59. “The symbol of the dragon should be always before them, that mankind seek to accomplish, not to think of sin and do penance!”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

60. “No man or woman can live another’s fate.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

61. “Ma la donna disse che gran parte della gente sogna di ricominciare da capo, e aggiunse che in questo c’era qualcosa di commovente, non di pazzo.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

62. “For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

63. “Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

64. “Even fiction – perhaps especially fiction – has more truth in it than the author knows.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

65. “Funny thing, how people keep fighting about religion, when really it’s all the same. Seems to me it’s the priests who make all the problems; most folks just want good harvests and healthy babies, just trying to get along. If it’s not the cattle stampeding, it’s the priests haranguing the crowds.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

66. “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.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

67. “Think not that you can direct my steps! If you come with me – you follow!”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

68. “Let them go!” interrupted Viviane angrily. “I still think we should let them go! I do not want to live in a world of Christians, who deny the Mother –.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

69. “You are sensitive – but make that your servant, not your master.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

70. “At last she drifted into sleep, and in the country of sleep she found herself standing in the orchard where she had spoken with Uther, where she had dried his tears with her veil.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

71. “If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

72. “He was guarded behind a hundred fences of reserve and anger.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

73. “Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

74. “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.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

75. “The Gods give of their best, not their worst, to men!”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

76. “A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

77. “I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

78. “But if men do not believe in more than one life,” Igraine protested, shaken, “how will they avoid despair? What just God would create some men wretched, and others happy and prosperous, if one life were all that they could have?”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

79. “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.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

80. “But whatever it is that they believe, the views they hold are altering this world; not only in the spirit, but on the material plane. As they deny the world of the spirit, and the realms of Avalon, so those realms cease to exist for them. They still exist, of course; but not in the same world with the world of the followers of Christ.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

81. “From these Christians who came to us to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter’s son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

82. “I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies – but I don’t use that kind of language in public.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

83. “The truth is not so good a story.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

84. “I wasn’t a child at 13, were you?”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

85. “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.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

86. “I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

87. “One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

88. “As life grew better, happier, safer, did it also lose some indefinable edge which made it worth living at all?”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

89. “Know, O my sisters, that the moon power is the Power of women, the light that shines in the darkness, the tides that rule the inner planes. The maiden moon governs all growth and all beginnings, and so it is that we draw on her power for those purposes for which our help has been requested.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

90. “The mountains shook again and settled into place, shaking themselves ever more lightly until the tremblors ceased.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

91. “Let him think her the most doting of his subjects, let him think her only his sweet compliant wife. It meant nothing to her, but one day it might mean much to have his trust, so that she could do what she chose.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

92. “The Merlin smiled gently. “I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God’s will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

93. “Love, whenever and wherever it is found, though it last but a few moments, can bring only joy – if it is not thwarted!”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

94. “Welke wijze God zou een man naar de hel sturen vanwege zijn onwetendheid, in plaats van hem te onderwijzen in het hiernamaals?”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

96. “Listen to me Igraine,′ said the Merlin. ‘I fathered you, though that gives me no rights; it is the blood of the Lady which confers royalty, and you are of the oldest royal blood, descended from daughter to daughter of the Holy Isle.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

97. “Was she mad, with her fancies of shared destiny and the other half of her soul?”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

98. “They wish to keep the weapons, and the harps, and everything else save for the suffering of childbirth and the toil of the cooking pot and the loom. I dare say they would like to say women cannot serve the gods, but no one would be foolish enough to believe that.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

99. “As they deny the world of the spirit, and the realms of Avalon, so those realms cease to exist for them. They still exist, of course; but not in the same world with the world of the followers of Christ. Avalon, the Holy Isle, is now no longer the same island as Glastonbury where we of the Old Faith once allowed the monks to build their chapel and their monastery.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

100. “Leave tomorrow’s troubles for tomorrow’s men to solve.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley