Marion Zimmer Bradley

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But 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

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

A trail without beginning has no end.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

If you can’t be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot?

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Our world is rotten, but I’ve no confidence that the new world will be better!

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Lancelet said, “And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference…”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. She thought she had never loved him so much as at this moment, when she heard the convent door close, hard and final, and felt the wall shutting her in. (Gwenhwyfar).

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

"Only men laugh, only men dance, only men weep" - Saying on Darkover, quoted by Lew Alton

— Marion Zimmer Bradley