Quotes from William Golding

Le più grandi idee sono le più semplici.

Quería explicar que la gente nunca resultaba ser del todo como uno se imagina que es.

I was an estructuralist at the age of seven, which is about the right age for it.

Caminaron juntos, como dos universos distintos de experiencias y sentimientos, incapaces de comunicarse.

Uno tiene miedo porque la gente siempre tiene miedo.

We have to face it at last. We're not all human.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English; and the English are the best at everything. So we've got to do the right things

Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.

Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver river with a flashing light rippling back and forth along the lip of the fall.

Grownups know things," said Piggy. "They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be all right—

If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words.

I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real.

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.

Bollocks to the rules!

Thought was a valuable thing, that got results.

ÎnÈ›elese deodat? plictiseala acestei vieÈ›i unde fiecare poteca era o improvizaÈ›ie, iar o buna parte din viata diurna È›i-o petreceai urm?rindu-È›i piciorele

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

The boys were dancing. The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beards of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to a white dust.

The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world. All at once they were aware of the evening as the end of light and warmth.

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.