Ursula K. Le Guin Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Ursula K. Le Guin quotes, Ursula K. Le Guin sayings, and Ursula K. Le Guin proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. Ursula K. Le Guin
It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. Ursula K. Le Guin
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. 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
There’s an ideal beauty that is harder to define or understand, because it occurs not just in the body but where the body and the spirit meet and define each other. 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
But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. Ursula K. Le Guin
Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation overcrowding reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact of being close to people, of being touched. Ursula K. Le Guin
The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us. 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
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. Ursula K. Le Guin
Reality was empty: without life or warmth or color or sound: without meaning. There were no heights or depths. All this lovely play of form and light and color on the sea and in the eyes of men, was no more than that: a playing of illusions on the shallow void. Ursula K. Le Guin
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Ursula K. Le Guin