« All Us Quotes · Ursula K. Le Guin's Page
Us Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given…
- We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
- The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It…
- The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
- If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an…
- We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them;…
- For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us…
- In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great…
- I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate…
- Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It…
- Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the…
- What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on…
- When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily,…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong