Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

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.

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.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.