14 William Golding Quotes for You to Enjoy

William Golding

English Novelist

Born: Sep 19, 1911

Died: Jun 19, 1993

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Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster Emily Bronte J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Makepeace Thackeray

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. William Golding

Patience Nile Must Woven He Sails Sea Who Rides

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. William Golding

I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers. William Golding

Life Love People Own Sense Rulers One Thing Above Examining Invariably Shared Leaders Countries Peril Understand Been Same Common The One Thing Cannot Common Sense Many Found Why Among Thing

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. William Golding

Me Walk Peer Faces Step Over Yesterdays Shoulder Keep Gray

Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to. William Golding

War You Man World Remove Before Believe Society Correct Unable Possible Something Structure Could Goodwill Because Did Same After Again Social Produced Therefore Ills Believed Second World War World War I Second World War

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. William Golding

You Sickness Out Disease Childhood Grow

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it. William Golding

Humanity Black Miracles Bit Possibility Find Religious Inside Black Hole Seldom Outside Since Most Scientific Scientists His Intellect Just Hole While Them Wholly Believes Position

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others. William Golding

Man Others Him Does Done

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 Immediately Writer He Written Wrote Knows Forget Should Meant

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

Daily Nature Job Birds Carpentry Some Write Push Part Stuff Sing Much Should Novelists Routine Level

While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I myself could not think at all. William Golding

Myself Three Think Thinking Later Claim Could Since Namely Boy Conclusion Still Came Were Grades Hobby While Stranger Even

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. William Golding

Wind Flying Out High Stuff Upset Sleep

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