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We are the star and the darkness it peirces — Clive Barker

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything ... — Clive Barker

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. — Clive Barker

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they're feeling righteous. — Clive Barker

I know many a strong man undone by marriage. — Clive Barker

How many human eyes ... had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years? — Clive Barker

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. - Sir Francis Bacon, — Clive Barker

... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil — Clive Barker

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 — Clive Barker

There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs? — Clive Barker

Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we? - Cenobite — Clive Barker

In my Art
I have but
one fear:
that we will
fail to be
fearless. — Clive Barker

What worth was a man who could not be haunted? — Clive Barker

What we want to believe and what is true are, I think, more closely related than the Rationalists would sometimes have us believe. — Clive Barker

Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster. — Clive Barker

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love — Clive Barker

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. — Clive Barker

You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people. — Clive Barker

The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity's sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside. — Clive Barker

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she'd not noticed it until now. — Clive Barker

There is no delight the equal of dread — Clive Barker

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads. — Clive Barker

Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand. — Clive Barker

To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels. — Clive Barker

Words are sexier than flesh. — Clive Barker

Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that. — Clive Barker

Behind stone, with stone, carrying stone — Clive Barker

Life was not a reversible commodity. Things passed away, never to return: species, hopes, years. — Clive Barker

I decided that I would do my best to be the worst thing Hell ever vomited forth. — Clive Barker

The dead have highways." Clive Barker — Clive Barker

Never a truer word said or thought. Anything was possible. — Clive Barker

Give me B movies or give me death! — Clive Barker

So many masks. Was she the only one who had no secret life, no other self in marrow or mind? — Clive Barker

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities. — Clive Barker

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror. — Clive Barker

Logic is the last refuge of a coward. — Clive Barker

Nothing's perfect... because time passes... and the beetle and the worm find their way into everything sooner or later. — Clive Barker

Are you ready for the apocalypse? — Clive Barker

Midian is where the monsters go. — Clive Barker

I am inevitable. — Clive Barker

If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it — Clive Barker

Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things.
Clive Barker, Abarat — Cornelia Funke

No passion, only sudden lust, and just as sudden indifference. — Clive Barker

- when the sun goes out and there's only night, we'll live on the earth. It'll be ours. — Clive Barker

Believe me, when I say;
There are no two powers
That command the soul.
One is God
The other is the tide.
-Anon
From the novel Abarat — Clive Barker

There's no delight the equal of dread. — Clive Barker

I will treat you with my knife the way you've treated my pages with your merciless eyes. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards. — Clive Barker

Love makes its demands, and you listen. You can't bargain with it. You can't fight it. Not if it's really love. — Clive Barker

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things. — Clive Barker

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful. — Clive Barker

He is not angry now; knives are not angry. He is not tearful now; knives are not tearful. He is simply sharp and keen and inevitable. — Clive Barker

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. — Clive Barker

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence. — Clive Barker

We all count the hours. We all look for completion, even if we fear it. We long to be consumed. I long to be consumed. — Clive Barker

Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever. — Clive Barker

I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that. — Clive Barker

I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies ...
In the Hills, the Cities — Clive Barker

They will all abandon you. All you have left is my desire for you. — Clive Barker

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly. — Clive Barker

She's ... just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing. — Clive Barker

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. — Clive Barker

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. — Clive Barker

The extraordinary's the norm. — Clive Barker

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth — Clive Barker

Having a routine that bordered on stagnancy had its benefits. — Clive Barker

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad. — Clive Barker

He had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. — Clive Barker

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. — Clive Barker

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin — Clive Barker

We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves. — Clive Barker

It's always what may not be shown that shows the most. Forbidden words are always the most eloquent. — Clive Barker

Sweets to the sweet," he murmured, — Clive Barker

It was bad enough that these creatures had children and art; that they might also have vision was too dangerous a thought to entertain. — Clive Barker

Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves. — Clive Barker

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always. — Clive Barker

Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker

All the great powers in the world are blood-suckers and soul-stealers at heart. — Clive Barker

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium. — Clive Barker

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. — Clive Barker

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her. — Clive Barker

I have such sights to show you. Soon, you will have answers to questions you have never even dared to ask. — Clive Barker

Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed. — Clive Barker

You think I'm finished, so you're leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country. — Clive Barker

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring. — Clive Barker

( ... ) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart. — Clive Barker

He liked the phrase "mother's tit." It said so much, so simply. Momma's tit had a good deal more power to move these men than her apple pie. — Clive Barker

True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same. — Clive Barker

People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read. — Clive Barker

After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder? — Clive Barker

That which is imagined can never be lost. — Clive Barker

One man's pornography is another man's theology. — Clive Barker

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion. — Clive Barker

Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he'd never felt more alive. — Clive Barker

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl. — Nnedi Okorafor

Always, worlds within worlds. — Clive Barker

He wouldn't be remembered well. — Clive Barker

Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality! — Clive Barker

You want my advice!
Kiss the Devil, eat the worm.
Jan de Mooy, Another Matter; or, Man Remade — Clive Barker

Where else can bubble-gum hearts, the dream travellers, the serial killers, and the occasional guest-star from beyond the grave occupy the same space? — Clive Barker

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. — Clive Barker