More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
To hear, one must be silent.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
