17 beautiful quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live t...
“The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. T...
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
“I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.”
“We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, al...
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted a...
“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.The artist whose medium is fiction does thisin words.The novelist sa...
“To learn which questions are unanswerable, andnot to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and dar...
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach sui...
“But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
