173 Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Before the gods, nothing matters save what you may create for yourself.

It does not matter what you are to do, she said, just as softly. What you are is something different. That is what you have to learn.

Even if you think it wicked and shameful, would you pretend to know what is right for another? Even the wise cannot know everything, and perhaps the Gods have more purposes than we in our little knowledge, can see.

… 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

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

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.

What just God would create some men wretched, and others happy and prosperous, if one life were all that they could have?

Morgause looked up at the old man, her eyes wide in awe.- Are you so old, Venerable One?The Merlin smiled down at the girl and said, - Not in my own body. But I have read much in the great hall which is not in this world, there the Record of All Things is written. And also, I was living then. Those who are the Lords of this world permitted me to come back, but in another body of flesh. -

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.