Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Strong, Spring, Light

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Stars, Safety

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

• Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Light, Sky

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Letting Go, Reading, Dark

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.67, Ultramarine Publishing

• From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wise, Eye, Animal

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

• The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Interesting, Silence, Topics

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.3, Grove Press

• there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Betrayal, Silence, Speak

• If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Betrayal, Names, Voice

• The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Long, Silence, Solitude

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.205, Shambhala Publications

• The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Silence, Darkness

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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