I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The moon was through to the sunset side of the gap, but its light was hardly noticeable on the earth for the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver… — William Golding Copy Share Image
It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature. — 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
