Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes about Life

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

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Business, Future

The Left Hand of Darkness ch. 5 (1969)

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Love, Life, Relationship

The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inspirational, Life, God

Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.56, Penguin

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Hurt, Two

Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.170, Penguin

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Depression, Sleep

Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Forever, Lovers

Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Other Wind”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Love You, Years

Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inspirational, Life, Men

Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Glimpse, Lovers

Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Other Wind: The Sixth Book of Earthsea”, p.20, Hachette UK

True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero-really look-and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Religious, Real

Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.77, Ultramarine Publishing