Avalon Quote by Marion Zimmer Bradley

“With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! that was long ago.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It had to do with the knowledge that the world was as it was because of what men believed it was... year by year,…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern…

— Joseph Conrad

“Beyond the River of the Blessed, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Avalon. Our swords were shattered in our hands…

— Roger Zelazny

“But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away the sea…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“There, below the cliffs, is a bay of sand where the rocks stand up like the fangs of wolves, and no boat or swimmer…

— Mary Stewart

“Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the…

— Yukio Mishima

“Out on the roads the pilgrims sank down and fell over and died and the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun…

— Cormac McCarthy

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which…

— Cyril Connolly

The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But…

— Matthew Arnold

“Glimpses do you seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul…

— Herman Melville

“Leave the dark places in the sea for fools and explorers.”

— Mira Grant