Quotes by Ursula K. LeGuin
| It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. |
| I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. |
| The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next. |
| Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. |
| Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. |
| When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep. |
| If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. |
| You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. |
| As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. |
| 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. |
| The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities. |
| What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy |
