Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes, Thoughts and images

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

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.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

To hear, one must be silent.

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .