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Ursula K. Le Guin

12 quotes

Sometimes a single quote is enough to make a name memorable. Ursula K. Le Guin has given us several. Whether reflecting on Imagination or Hope, Ursula K. Le Guin brought uncommon clarity to every subject. 19 of Ursula K. Le Guin's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Imagination, Hope, Women, Truth, and Technology. One standout: "Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not."

“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Music

All Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Change

“If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Science

“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope

“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Power

“Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Imagination

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Morning

“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.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Happiness

“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Imagination

“There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Dreams

“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Music

“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.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope