1,226 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

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.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.