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Ursula K. Le Guin on Christmas

1929–2018 United States

← All quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

7 quotes

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

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

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

The Other Wind (2001)

Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.

Tales from Earthsea (2001)

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

The Lathe of Heaven (1971)

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.

The Farthest Shore (1972)

He had waked her; he had given her what she lacked, and what few men could have given her: the sense of peril, which is the root of love.

Orsinian Tales (1976)

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?

The Other Wind (2001)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ursula K. Le Guin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.