Top 100 Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Yes, I am a sorceress. I do not think I am ugly, but you must decide for yourself whether I am good or evil. I try to do the will of the Goddess, and that is all anyone can do.”

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

58. “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

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

61. “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

62. “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

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

64. “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

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

66. “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

67. “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

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

70. “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

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

72. “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

73. “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

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

75. “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

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

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. “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

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

93. “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

94. “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

95. “They have known one another since they were young, and if they cannot forget that once they loved in a way that comes not twice to any man.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

96. “Our world – ruled by the Goddess and the Horned One, her consort, the world you know, the world of many truths – is being forced away from the mainstream course of time.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

97. “Words flung in anger have an evil way of returning when you love them least.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

98. “Quite simply, when she came near him, she knew that she had discovered some lost part of herself; with him she was whole. Whatever might happen between them as ordinary man and woman, something lay beyond it which would never die or lessen in its intensity. They shared a destiny, and somehow they must fulfill it together... and often when she had come so far in her thoughts she would stop and stare at herself in disbelief.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

99. “The friendship of a Comyn lord is as the sweetness of a beehive: it bears a deadly sting!”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

100. “A pathway must remain, even if it is a secret.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley