“There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds… — William Golding Copy Share Image
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling… — William Golding Copy Share Image
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life… — William Golding Copy Share Image
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“What is like chemistry?" "Well. Life." "It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...” — William Golding Copy Share Image
My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image