1,226 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.

This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and yearning over the doorsill of his house, the table where he has eaten, the branches outside the window of the room where he has slept. Only in dreams do any but the great Mages realize this magic of going home.

I'm old to be raising a child. And she… She obeys me, but only because she wants to." "It's the only justification for obedience," Ged observed.

Judgement is poverty.

We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge and do nothing with it, but once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell. These rushing people are watched by people who sit in plastic seats bolted to the floor and who might just as well be bolted to the seats. So far, then, the airport and the airplane are equal, in the way that the bottom of one septic tank is equal, all in all, to the bottom of the next septic tank.

They mingle their life with the world,they mix their mind up with the world.Ordinary people look after them.Wise souls are children.

Hollowed out,clay makes a pot.Where the pot's notis where it's useful.