Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

We be of one blood, ye and I

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

I think people are universal.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

We are all alike, on the inside.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we're all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together!

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

My space expedition has changed my perspective towards people. Looking down at the Earth, we could not see borders or people with different nationalities. It was then that realisation dawned on us that all of us are a group of human beings and citizens of the universe.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.