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Darkness Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

17 Darkness quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin invites us to wander the shadowed corridors of imagination, where darkness becomes a canvas for wonder. Across seventeen thoughtful lines, her prose balances the unsettling with the luminous, offering a nuanced look at what lies hidden in night.

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The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

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

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Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.

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“Light is the left hand of darkness.”

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The light is the left hand of darkness

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“In trouble and from darkness you come, Ged, yet your coming is joy to me.”

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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

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“Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?' ...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their…

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The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

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“A voice in the darkness said, ‘You have come too far.’ Arren answered it, saying, ‘Only too far is far enough.”

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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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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together…

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“Offering I made a poem going to sleep last night, woke in sunlight, it was clean forgotten. If it was any good,…

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“On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and blacked the yin…

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There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected…

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“Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between the houses with yellow- lit windows, and on out into the darkness…

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“They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave…

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Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

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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.

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“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.”

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