Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

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He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill bec — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each ot — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
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 — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run s — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety? — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trou — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
And I did nothing, nothing but try to hide from the horror of dying." He stopped, for saying the truth aloud was unendur — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, an — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you. For you would — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
There must be darkness to see the stars. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men wea — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore