Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• 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.

• If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Home, Joy, Suffering

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.144, Hachette UK

• A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Joy, Fool

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

• True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero-really look-and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Religious, Real

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.77, Ultramarine Publishing

• If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Joy, Suffering, Chance

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.144, Hachette UK

• 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, Time, Mean

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.165, Penguin

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