Light Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The light is the left hand of darkness

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“Light is the left hand of darkness.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Greed puts out the sun.

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“It’s queer that daylight’s not enough. We need the shadows, in order to walk.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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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What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes…

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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

I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“stepped out of the tent on to nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside me, but neither he nor I…

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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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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“All brightness was gone, leaving nothing. We stepped out of the tent onto nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside…

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The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

— Ursula K. Le Guin