quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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"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.
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— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
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— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
"'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.'
Lancelet 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 God's 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. "
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon. Book 4: The Prisoner in the Oak)
Lancelet 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 God's 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. "
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon. Book 4: The Prisoner in the Oak)
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"And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea."
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
""I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.""
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (Lady of Avalon (Avalon Series))
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (Lady of Avalon (Avalon Series))
""I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.""
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (Ancestors of Avalon)
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (Ancestors of Avalon)
"By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new."
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
"If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it..."
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
"For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth; that there is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you, and whether, at the end, you arrive at the Holy Isle of Eternity or among the priests with their bells and their death and their Satan and hell and damnation...but perhaps I am unjust even to them. Even the Lady of the Lake, who hated a priest's robe as she would have hated a poisonous viper, and with good cause too, chid me once for speaking evil of the God.
'For all the Gods are one god,' she said to me then, as she had said many times before, and as I have said to my own novices many times, and as every priestess who comes after me will say again, 'and all the Goddesses are one Goddess, and their is only one Initiator. And to every man his own truth, and the God within.'
And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.
But this is my truth, I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.
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— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
'For all the Gods are one god,' she said to me then, as she had said many times before, and as I have said to my own novices many times, and as every priestess who comes after me will say again, 'and all the Goddesses are one Goddess, and their is only one Initiator. And to every man his own truth, and the God within.'
And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.
But this is my truth, I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.
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— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
"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."
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
""But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things,Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.""
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)
""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 (Ancestors of Avalon)
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (Ancestors of Avalon)
