Truth Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.”

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”

“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?”

“Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.”

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”

“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”

“the squeeky wheel gets the grease.”

“Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels.”

“If I am right, Thy grace impart”

“You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she asks.”

“as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.”