Quotes by Ursula K. LeGuin

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.”

“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”

“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”

“To hear, one must be silent”

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep”

“To oppose something is to maintain it.”

“Love doesnt just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

To oppose something is to maintain it.

You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

When action grows unprofitable gather information when information grows unprofitable sleep.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.