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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
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
... 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
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 ArtI 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
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
— 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
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
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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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 take accusations of selling out lightly.
— 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
He had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
— 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
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 shortAnd pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker
Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
— 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
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
( ... ) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart.
— Clive Barker
True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.
— 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
