Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Truth, Lying, Writing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.8, Penguin

• Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Hope, Heart, Ambition

  URSULA K. LE GUIN (1976). “THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS”

• I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Men, Doors

• A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Believe, Play, Desire

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

• It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Desire, Shame, Humans

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.124, Penguin

• The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Desire, Growing, Desire For Power

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Heart, Fire, Desire

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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