More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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 have a choice at all is to be privileged.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
