# Quote — Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

> It is said that fifty-three years after his liberation he returned from the Golden Cloud, to take up once again the gauntlet of Heaven, to oppose the Order of Life and the gods who ordained it so. His followers had prayed for his return, though their prayers were sin. Prayer should not trouble one who has gone on to Nirvana, no matter what the circumstances of his going. The wearers of the saffron robe prayed, however, that He of the Sword, Manjusri, should come again among them, The Boddhisatva is said to have heard...

- Author: [Roger Zelazny](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny.md)
- Book: [Lord of Light](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light.md)
- Page: 1
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/it-is-said

## More from this book

> I do not have the time to give you more than my contempt.

p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/i-do-not.md)

> I shall return to being a man, and I shall let the people keep the Buddha who is in their hearts. Whatever the source, the message was pure, believe me. That is the only reason it took root and grew.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/i-shall-return.md)

> "I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted."
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> "But they live, and they live and they live."
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> "Sometimes, and sometimes not. So do the gods."
>
> "You were about the last Accelerationist left in the world, Sam. No one would have thought you were also the deadliest."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/i-decided-that.md)