Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Stars, Safety

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

• When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

• Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Light, Hands

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2017). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.193, Hachette UK

• The light is the left hand of darkness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Hands, Darkness

  "The Left Hand of Darkness". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969.

• To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stress, Skills, Darkness

  "The Left Hand of Darkness". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969.

• No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Forever, Darkness

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

• There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Fall, Night

• Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Eye, Thinking, Darkness

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.116, Penguin

• The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Darkness, Sunlight

• The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Silence, Darkness

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

• It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Light, Hands

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.182, Penguin

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