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“Are you aware we anticipate the Apocalypse, von Bek?”

Michael Moorcock

“The obsession’s common enough, Montsorbier, amongst ignorant folk.”
Source: The von Bek family, The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 377)

“I understand you now. But surely, if Lucifer is successful, we shall all be saved.”

Michael Moorcock

The Wildgrave’s smile was bitter. “What logic provides you with that hope, von Bek? If God is merciful, He provides us with little evidence.”
Source: The von Bek family, The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 6 (p. 79)

“Only Law could create such perfection and, Elric thought, such perfection defeated progress. That the twin forces complemented one another was now plainer than ever before, and for either to gain complete ascendancy over the other meant entropy or stagnation for the cosmos. Even though Law might dominate the Earth, Chaos must be present, and vice versa.”

Michael Moorcock

Book 4, Chapter 2 “Dark Revelations” (p. 582)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“Regret is useless since it can achieve nothing.”

Michael Moorcock

Book 4, “Doomed Lord’s Passing,” Chapter 1 “When the Sun Stopped” (p. 577)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“Are the gods mad or are they so subtle we cannot fathom the workings of their minds?”

Michael Moorcock

Source: Book 3, Chapter 4 “What the Sea God Said” (p. 554), The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“Elric knew that in reality Chaos was the harbinger of stagnation, for though it changed constantly, it never progressed.”

Michael Moorcock

Book 3, “Sad Giant’s Shield,” Chapter 3 “A Watery Summoning” (p. 545)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“Why do we worship such a god when whim decides him so often?”

Michael Moorcock

Book 1, Chapter 4 “Of Living Swords and Dead Gods” (p. 463)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“I must admit, sir, that I have modified the verses a little, to allow for the new things I have learned, so I am an unreliable source of truth, sir, save in its most fundamental sense. Like a majority of poets, sir.”

Michael Moorcock

Book 3 “A Rose Redeemed; A Rose Revived,” Chapter 1 “Of Weapons Possessed of Will” (p. 270)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“For this was the other thing that Elric knew; that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance.”

Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 5 “Detecting Certain Hints of the Higher Worlds” (p. 259)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“In my own world, sir, sad to say, human prejudice is matched only by human folly. Not a soul claims to be prejudiced, of course, as there are few who would describe themselves as fools…”

Michael Moorcock

Elric, chewing on a piece of barely palatable salt beef, remarked that this seemed a quality of a good deal of society, throughout the multiverse.
Book 2, Chapter 4 “Land at Last!” (p. 241)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“You desire power only for that most selfish of all ends, and therefore you know no boundaries in the seeking and the gaining of it.”

Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 2 “In Which Old Acquaintances Are Resumed and New Agreements Reached” (p. 226)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“Did you not tell me once that patronage of the artist was the only valuable vocation to which a prince might aspire?”

Michael Moorcock

Book 2 “Esbern Snare: The Northern Werewolf,” Chapter 1 “Consequences of Ill-Considered Dealings With the Supernatural” (p. 218)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“There are subjects forbidden by good manners, it seems. As in many societies, I suppose, where the very fundamentals of their existence are the subject of the deepest taboos. What is this terror of reality, I wonder, which plagues the human spirit?”

Michael Moorcock

Book 1, Chapter 4 “On Joining the Gypsies” (pp. 188-189)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“The man is a relic, gentlemen, from an age most of us have only read about. He would have us judged by our wealth and our martial glory rather than our goodwill and tranquility of spirit.”

Michael Moorcock

Book 1, Chapter 3 “Peculiar Geography of an Unknown Realm” (p. 167)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“Elric was recollecting what was best and noblest in his own people and in himself, and even as he celebrated this he mourned the self-obsessed creatures they had become, using their power merely to preserve their power and that, he supposed, was true decay…”

Michael Moorcock

Book 1, Chapter 1 “Of Love, Death, Battle & Exile” (pp. 144-145)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“I am for no master nor moral persuasion. I am for myself. What your yearning soul, madam, might mistake for loyalty to person or Purpose is merely a firm and, aye, principled determination to accept responsibility only for myself and my own actions.”

Michael Moorcock

Book 1 “Concerning the Fate of Empires,” Chapter 1 “Of Love, Death, Battle & Exile” (p. 137)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“I do not know. That is the only real truth, Shaarilla. I do not know.”

Michael Moorcock

Source: The Elric Cycle, The Weird of the White Wolf (1977), Chapter 1, “A Woman Who Would Risk Grief to Her Soul” (p. 452)

“Despairingly, sometimes, I seek the comfort of a benign god, Shaarilla. My mind goes out, lying awake at night, searching through black barrenness for something—anything—which will take me to it, warm me, protect me, tell me that there is order in the chaotic tumble of the universe; that it is consistent, this precision of the planets, not simply a brief, bright spark of sanity in an eternity of malevolent anarchy.”

Michael Moorcock

Elric sighed and his quiet tones were tinged with hopelessness. “Without some confirmation of the order of things, my only comfort is to accept the anarchy. This way, I can revel in chaos and know, without fear, that we are doomed from the start—that our brief existence is both meaningless and damned. I can accept, then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us. I have weighed the proof, Shaarilla, and must believe that anarchy prevails, in spite of all the laws which seemingly govern our actions, our sorcery, our logic. I see only chaos in the world. If the book we seek tells me otherwise, then I shall gladly believe it. Until then, I will put my trust only in my sword and myself.”
Source: The Elric Cycle, The Weird of the White Wolf (1977), Chapter 1, “A Woman Who Would Risk Grief to Her Soul” (p. 451)

“Men may trust men, Prince Elric, but perhaps we’ll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.”

Michael Moorcock

Book 3, Chapter 7 “The Irony of It” (p. 413)
The Elric Cycle, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)

“All this is doubtless pre-ordained. Our destinies have been linked from the first.”

Michael Moorcock

“Such philosophies can lead to unhealthy fatalism,” said Terndrik of Hasghan. “Best believe our fates are our own, even if the evidence denies it.”
Book 1, Chapter 3 “Some Reference to the Three Who Are One” (p. 307)
The Elric Cycle, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)