Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

I’ve been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

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. Life consists of opposites in balance.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Love is the only prayer I know.

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.

If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats … It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

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.