Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Rejects You, Enemy, Facts

• What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on everybody agreeing to ignore, most of the time, the fact that all of us are, most of the time, inadequate, incompetent, pitiful, and, in fact, naked to our enemies. None of us really has very much in the way of spiritual, moral clothing. We dress ourselves in rags. And we agree to say nothing about it. To a very large extent, it is human charity that clothes us.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Spiritual, Children, Growing Up

• Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cutting, Rocks, Hands

• There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cutting, Soul, Enemy

• Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Sex, Enemy

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.27, Ultramarine Publishing

• You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Responsibility, Enemy, Blame

  Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree (1975). “The new Atlantis and other novellas of science fiction”

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