Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

You can have too much reality.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

Reality doesn't interest me.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.