Dark Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s nineteen poetic lines explore the night’s mysteries with the same imaginative depth that defines her speculative worlds. Each fragment invites contemplation without ever feeling didactic.

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“I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the…

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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.

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

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.

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It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold,…

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To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good…

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Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures,…

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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the…

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“Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.…

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“Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a…

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Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness…

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“It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the…

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“A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in…

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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around,…

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And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with…

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.…

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