Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

429 quotes found

Author · American · 1929–2018

American author (1929–2018)

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“I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, and saying, ‘Look, there’s the Moon.’ Our earth i...”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

absolute-truth anarres earth hill

“There was something lacking – in him, he thought, not in the place. He was not up to it. He was not strong enough to take what was so generously offered. He felt himself dry and arid, like a desert...”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

solitude

“Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good...”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

grieving mourning solitude

“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

anarchist anarchy free-will responsibility

“... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

freedom power responsibility

“You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

revolution social-change

“Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.”