Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
To oppose something is to maintain it.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
Nothing succeeds like success.
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
After all, work is done for the work's sake, it is the lasting pleasure of life.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
To hear, one must be silent.
A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
Success is somebody else's failure.
Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
