All Clive Barker Quotes
- 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
- There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. Conscious
- It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world,… Alone
- Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be… Age
- The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all. All
- I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to… Age
- Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities. Acceptable
- Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. Blood
- There is no delight the equal of dread Delight
- I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens… Abundance
- ..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken… Bound
- It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great… Ambiguous
- We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad. Burn
- There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination… Archetype
- Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is. Blue
- So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold.… Born