All Clive Barker Quotes
- Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we… Besides
- Give me B movies or give me death! B Movies
- Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. Life
- A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself. Die
- His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming. Body
- 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… Afraid
- 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… Been
- Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way. Beguile
- Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence,… Assume
- Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor… Any
- Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour,… Brought
- We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city… All
- There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or… Beauty
- Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see… Able
- In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that… Any
- …there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at. Fun
- She was a sea: and I had to swim in her. Inspirational
- Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all… All
- No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering. Good
- With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to… Come Back