Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

To hear, one must be silent.

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

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

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

The light is the left hand of darkness.

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

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.

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

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

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

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

The creative adult is the child who has survived.