“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?' ...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All you have to do to see life whole is to see it as mortal. I'll die, you'll die; how could we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He thought of death, in that gap between the beginning of a step and its completion, and at the end of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Old age generally involves pain and danger and inevitably ends in death. The acceptance of that takes courage. Courage deserves respect.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“So God is dead, at least as a swearword, but hate and feces keep going strong. Le roi est mort, vive le… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...close up, a world's all dirt and rocks... The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“that silent vastness of fire and ice that said in enormous letters of black and white DEATH, DEATH, written right across a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Well," he said slowly, "sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ... Instead of seeing birth as an awakening from blank nonbeing and fetal… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This Stone He went looking for a road that doesn't lead to death. He went looking for that road and found it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If you can see a thing whole," he said, "it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives. . . . But close… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“WE stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our sis, and took off -- down, north, onward, into that silent vastness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
![“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ... Instead of seeing birth as an awakening from blank nonbeing and fetal incompletion into the child's fullness of being, and seeing maturity as a narrowing, impoverishing journey toward blank death, [Wordsworth's] ode proposes that a soul enters life…” quote by Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/096/ursula-k-le-guin-138_birth_our-birth-is-but-a-sleep-and-a-forgettin_583477.jpg)
