Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

• Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Fall, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, George Hersh (1985). “Always Coming Home”, p.184, Univ of California Press

• 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”

• The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Heart, Animal, Frozen

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

• If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Summer, Spring, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “Powers”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I write with all my heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Heart, My Heart

• Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Baby, Teacher, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.186, Ultramarine Publishing

• Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stupid, Athlete, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.5, Grove Press

• It is useless work that darkens the heart.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Work, Heart, Useless

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

• 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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