Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes

"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
(Related: Happiness, Time, Joy, Reason)

"In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void."
- Ursula K. LeGuin

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
(Related: End, Journey)

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
(Related: Love, Time)

"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
(Related: Children, Revolution)

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
(Related: Life)

"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
(Related: Power, Women, Silence)

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
- Ursula K. LeGuin
(Related: World)