Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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

• We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Eye, Looks, Ears

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2006). “Gifts”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Journey, Cells, Starting Over

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