Let me think in pictures again. If I imagine heaven metaphorically dazzled into colours, the pure white light spread out in a cascade richer than a peacock’s tail then I see that one of the colours lay over me. I was innocent of guilt, unconscious of innocence; happy, therefore, and unconscious of happiness. Perhaps the full sheaf of colours is never to be experienced by the human being since if they experience these colours they must lie in the past or on someone else.

— William Golding

William Golding Quotes

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” The laughter shivered again. “Come now,” said the Lord of the Flies. “Get back to the others and we’ll forget the whole thing.

— William Golding

They were reminded of their personal sorrows; and perhaps felt themselves to share in a sorrow that was universal.

— William Golding

The sun was bright and danger had faded with the darkness.

— William Golding

Now that his physical voice was silent, the inner voice of reason, and other voices too, made themselves heard.

— William Golding

Hi!’ it said, ’wait a minute!

— William Golding

Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the incantation of his address was powerless to help him.

— William Golding

We have lots of assemblies. Everybody enjoys speaking and being together. We decide things. But they don’t get done.

— William Golding

You are a silly little boy,’ said the Lord of the Flies, ’just an ignorant, silly little boy.

— William Golding

They are frightened of the air.

— William Golding

Not them. Didn’t you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They’re all dead.

— William Golding

We don’t want you,’ said Jack, flatly. ‘Three’s enough.’ Piggy’s glasses flashed. ‘I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else was.

— William Golding

I just think you’ll get back all right.

— William Golding

You could see the damp spot where each flake died, then you could mark the first flake that lay down without melting and watch the whole ground turn white.

— William Golding

Not fair let me see your anal gland pretty please with a cherry on top!

— William Golding

Si accorse che cominciava a capire come fosse faticosa quella vita, nella quale ogni sentiero era nuovo, e una parte considerevole del tempo in cui si stava svegli si doveva passarla a guardarsi i piedi.

— William Golding

But there seemed something more fitting in leaving the last word till they stood on the top, and could see a circular horizon of water. Ralph turned to the others. ‘This belongs to us.

— William Golding

On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned, one was –.

— William Golding

This dreadful eruption from an unknown world.

— William Golding

The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.

— William Golding

You shut up, you fat slug!

— William Golding
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