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“At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.”
-- William Golding
#Eye #Vision #Moments
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“No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.”
-- William Golding
#Cost #Endeavour #Humans
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“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
-- William Golding
#Wise #Fall #Heart
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“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.”
-- William Golding
#Men #Thinking #Foolish
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“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
-- William Golding
#Ideas #Simplicity #Insight
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“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
-- William Golding
#Past #Journey #Hiking
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“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
-- William Golding
#Beast
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“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”
-- William Golding
#Life #Memorable #Feet
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“Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”
-- William Golding
#Sleep #Insomnia #Wind
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“Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.”
-- William Golding
#Laughter #Language
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“Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.”
-- William Golding
#Inspirational #Life #Art
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“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.”
-- William Golding
#Book #Forget #Should
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“Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.”
-- William Golding
#Stars #Rain #Sky
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“Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey must have been blind or wrong in the head.”
-- William Golding
#War #Men #Years
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“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
-- William Golding
#Adults
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“Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.”
-- William Golding
#Language #Fit #Jackets
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“Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
-- William Golding
#Law #Hunts #Agree
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“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
-- William Golding
#Dream #Hurt
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“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”
-- William Golding
#Different #Faces #Lit
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“He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.”
-- William Golding
#Patience #Sea #Sailing
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“The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.”
-- William Golding
#News #Beast #Horrible
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“the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”
-- William Golding
#White #Fragments #Thousand
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“The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.”
-- William Golding
#Skulls #Answers
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“We're not savages. We're English.”
-- William Golding
#Savages
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“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”
-- William Golding
#World #Slipping
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“Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.”
-- William Golding
#Believe #Mean #Nuts
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“They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.”
-- William Golding
#Two #Feelings #Communicate
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“How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?”
-- William Golding
#Mad #Long #Staring
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“Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.”
-- William Golding
#Jobs #Writing #Bird
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“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.”
-- William Golding
#Pride #Savages #Nationalism
