| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 25411 |
| QUOTATION: | To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be—I hope it is—redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Golding (b. 1911), British author. Lecture, April 11, 1980, Hamburg, Germany. “Belief and Creativity,” A Moving Target (1982). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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