Ursula K. Le Guin on Love
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Ursula K. Le Guin, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ursula K. Le Guin, entry #535: "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
Attributed to Ursula K. Le Guin, entry #75624: "He had waked her; he had given her what she lacked, and what few men could have given her: the sense of peril, which is the root of love."
9 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin on Love
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
"He had waked her; he had given her what she lacked, and what few men could have given her: the sense of peril, which is the root of love."
"A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt."
"Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?"
"Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power."
"The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever."
"No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year."
"He had assumed that if you removed a human being’s natural incentive to work—his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy—and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But no careless workers kept those lovely farmlands, or made the superb cars and comfortable trains. The lure and compulsion of profit was evidently a much more effective replacement of the natural initiative than he had been led to believe."
"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 skillful 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."