Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes about Heart

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It is useless work that darkens the heart.

It is useless work that darkens the heart.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Work, Heart, Useless

"The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope, Heart, Ambition

URSULA K. LE GUIN (1976). “THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS”

If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Summer, Spring, Heart

Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “Powers”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Lying, Fall, Heart

Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, George Hersh (1985). “Always Coming Home”, p.184, Univ of California Press

Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Heart, Fire, Desire

Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Stupid, Athlete, Heart

Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.5, Grove Press

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Heart, Animal, Frozen

Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Baby, Teacher, Heart

Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.186, Ultramarine Publishing