The Dispossessed Quotes

“I'll die, you'll die; how could we love each other otherwise? The sun's going to burn out, what else keeps it shining?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Vermediğiniz şeyi alamazsınız, kendinizi vermeniz gerekir. Devrim'i satın alamazsınız. Devrim'i yapamazsınız. Devrim olabilirsiniz ancak.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“He welcomed isolation with all his heart. It never occurred to him that the reserve he met in Bedap and Tirin might be a response; that his gentle but already formidable hermetic character might form its own ambiance, which only great strength, or great devotion, could withstand. All he noticed, really, was that he had plenty of time to work at last.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be governed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“You don't understand what time is,' he said. 'You say the past is gone. the future is not real, there is no change, no hope. You think Anarres is a future that cannot be reached, as your past cannot be changed. So there is nothing but the present, this Urras, the rich, real, stable present, the moment now. And you think that is something which can be possessed! You envy it a little. You think it's something you would like to have. But it is not real, you know. It is not stable, not solid—nothing is. Things change, change. You cannot have anything. And least of all can you have the present, unless you accept with it the past and the future. Not only the past but also the future, not only the future but also the past! Because they are real: only their reality makes the present real. You will not achieve or even understand Urras unless you accept the reality, the enduring reality, of Anarres.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Kardeş bile rahatlatamaz insanı kötü saatte, karanlıkta, duvarın dibinde.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“It is our suffering that brings us together.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“Gerçek kardeşlik paylaşılan acıda başlıyor.

│ Mülksüzler”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“She had made these with scrap wire and tools from the craft supply depot, and called them Occupations of Uninhabited Space.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“I'll die, you'll die; how could we love each other otherwise? The sun's going to burn out, what else keeps it shining?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give. “I am here because you see in me the promise, the promise that we made two hundred years ago in this city—the promise kept. We have kept it, on Anarres. We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have no government but the single principle of free association. We have no states, no nations, no presidents, no premiers, no chiefs, no generals, no bosses, no bankers, no landlords, no wages, no charity, no police, no soldiers, no wars. Nor do we have much else. We are sharers, not owners. We are not prosperous. None of us is rich. None of us is powerful. If it is Anarres you want, if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. You must come to it alone, and naked, as the child comes into the world, into his future, without any past, without any property, wholly dependent on other people for his life. You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“It was the most beautiful view Shevek had ever seen. The tenderness and vitality of the colors, the mixture of rectilinear human design and powerful, proliferate natural contours, the variety and harmony of the elements, gave an impression of complex wholeness such as he had never seen, except, perhaps, foreshadowed on a small scale in certain serene and thoughtful human faces.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Desar's chosen field in mathematics was so esoteric that nobody in the Institute or the Math Federation could really check on his progress. That was precisely why he had chosen it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do - they never adapt either.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Interruptions were sometimes more frequent than statements. The process, compared to a well-managed executive conference, was a slab of raw beef compared to a wiring diagram. Raw beef, however, functions better than a wiring diagram would, in its place — inside a living animal.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“The moment was gone; he saw it going. He did not try to hold on to it. He knew he was part of it, not it of him. He was in its keeping.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from the Numerical Harmonies, I supposed?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Odo had not tried to renew the basic relationships of music, when she renewed the relationships of men. She had always respected the necessary. The Settlers of Anarres had left the laws of man behind them, but had brought the laws of harmony along.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Hemos llegado, desde una gran distancia el uno al otro. Siempre lo hemos hecho. A través de grandes distancias, a través de años, a través de abismos de casualidad. Porque él viene de tan lejos, nada puede separarnos. Nada, ni la distancia, ni los años, puede ser más grande que la distancia que siempre estuvo entre nosotros, la distancia de nuestro sexo, la diferencia de nuestro ser, la de nuestras mentes; esa brecha, ese abismo que salvamos con una mirada, un roce, una palabra, la cosa más simple del mundo. Mira lo lejos que está, dormido. Mira lo lejos que está, lo lejos que está siempre. Pero vuelve, vuelve, vuelve...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!” “Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical. You see, we have neither prey nor enemy, on Anarres. We have only one another. There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“And yet, I wonder if it isn’t all a misunderstanding—this grasping after happiness, this fear of pain. . . . If instead of fearing it and running from it, one could . . . get through it, go beyond it There is something beyond it. It’s the self that suffers, and there’s a place where the self—ceases. I don’t know how to say it. But I believe that the reality—the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don’t in comfort and happiness—that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes, you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it’s right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature of existence. We can’t prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality. All of us here are going to know grief; if we live fifty years, we’ll have known pain for fifty years. And in the end we’ll die. That’s the condition we’re born on.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Gerçek yolculuk geri dönüştür.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Bir hırsız yaratmak için bir sahip yaratın; suç yaratmak istiyorsanız, yasalar koyun.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Then I saw . . . you see . . . I saw that you can't do anything for anybody. We can't save each other. Or ourselves.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed