Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science-fiction works set in her Hainish universe and the Earthsea fantasy series. These inspirational Ursula K Le Guin Quotes will change your life.
Best Ursula K Le Guin Quotes
- “No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “The creative adult is the child who has survived.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” – 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.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.” – Ursula K Le Guin
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“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “To hear, one must be silent.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.” – Ursula K Le Guin
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“The light is the left hand of darkness.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Hope is a slow business.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “We read books to find out who we are.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.” – Ursula K Le Guin
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“There are no right answers to wrong questions.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Success is somebody else’s failure.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “Those who build walls are their own prisoners.” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “There’s a great fear of the imagination. It’s a dangerous thing. It’s out of control, it’s subversive.” – Ursula K Le Guin
