1,226 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Cinders patter, falling with the snow. We creep infinitesimally northward through the dirty chaos of a world in the process of making itself. Praise then Creation unfinished!

...up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society and its rules, as he from his. [...] We are equals at last, equal, alien, alone.

He thought about how it was that when he was not a man of power he had received his inheritance as a man.

True art requires a single heart.

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair…Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days.

Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room.