Gifts
Ursula K. Le Guin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”
“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.”
“Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.”
“Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.”
“The habit of silence is lead on the tongue.”
“...talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and need.”
“To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”
“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. It's unwise, though, to think you know how it's going to go, or how it's going to end. That's to be known only when it's over. And even when it's over, even when it's somebody else's life, somebody who lived a hundred years ago, whose story I've heard told time and again, while I'm hearing it I hope and fear as if I didn't know how it would end; and so I live the story and it lives in me. That's as good a way as I know to outwit death. Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.”
“A bully doesn’t answer you; he may hear but pays no heed; he talks on as if you were of no account, and it gives him the advantage always at the start, though not always”
“With eye and hand and breath and will.”
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