Clive Barker Quotes
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Clive Barker Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The Monastery of the Cenobitical Order was a large-walled compound built seven hundred thousand years ago on a damned-made hill of stone and cement.
We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.
Hopelessness is reasonable. But nothing of worth in my life came of reason. Not my love, not my art, not my heaven. So I am hopeful
The scent of sweet cherry had attracted hundreds of ants. They were crawling over it and into it, many drowning for their greed.
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
Her mother had always said that women, being more at peace with themselves than men, needed fewer distractions from their hurts.
So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring.
Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that.
I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.
But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.
There's no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn't know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.
A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!
There's nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him," Zeffer pointed out. "He wouldn't do it for you." "I know that.
I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.
Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you.
Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts
Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book written in blood.
Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing?
A monster lies in wait in me,
A stew of wounds and misery,
But fiercer still in life and limb,
The me that lies in wait in him.
A stew of wounds and misery,
But fiercer still in life and limb,
The me that lies in wait in him.
I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.
( ... ) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart.
Was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head.
This kind of business (murder) required detachment. The trick was to do it almost casually, as you might flick on the radio, or swat a mosquito.
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin
It's always what may not be shown that shows the most. Forbidden words are always the most eloquent.
Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves.
Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than I'll never leave you.
The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.