Clive Barker Quotes

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness ...

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired sta...

You’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.

As to my mouth, of all my features, I wish I could possess my mouth again, just as it had been befor...

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species int...

The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.

Is there any good news?' Tesla

The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the s...

The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessy happy, weren't they? To Kristy this had always seemed self-e...

Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days ...

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, ...

Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he’d never felt more alive.

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling in...

Let’s prioritise here. At the risk of stating the obvious, this isn’t going to be easy. We need to f...

Men. Young men. Legal age, mind you. But young nonetheless. And it’s not what you think. When we mee...

They knew a lot, the dead. How many times had she said to Harry they were the world’s greatest untap...

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both T...

Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed ups...

Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

I know many a strong man undone by marriage.

In my ArtI have butone fear:that we willfail to befearless.

Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.

As long as they could still be moved by a minor chord, or brought to a crisis of tears by scenes of ...

Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each...

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Li...

Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’...

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the f...

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important...

That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's becaus...

A monster lies in wait in me,A stew of wounds and misery,But fiercer still in life and limb,The me t...

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in ...

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person kno...

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, buil...

We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved...

I don't like crowds of any kind. A dinner party of more than six people is not, for me, a pleasure. ...

Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. ...

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

Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of ...

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

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

Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him."Because any fool can be happy," he'd ...

I dreamed I spoke in another's language,I dreamed I lived in another's skin,I dreamed I was my own b...

A sweet slip of a girl like you, why should you have to know anything about the sorrow of the world?...

Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the...

Meaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality...

Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And s...

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

Dream!Forge yourself and riseOut of your mind and into others.Men, be women.Fish, be flies.Girls, ta...

She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (televisio...

Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we'v...

Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads ou...

Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the bas...

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

Dorothea: "What the fuck are you?"Nix: "A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind.

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters li...

The dead have highways." Clive Barker

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

Zombies are the ideal late twentieth-century monsters. A zombie is the one thing you can't deal with...

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...

Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. T...

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too...

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create...

If you want to be a big success then it becomes a dick showing contest, and that's not what it's abo...

There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these a...

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

Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chil...

I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In...

Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing ...

I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I ha...

Witch, do this for me,Find me a moonmade of longing.Then cut it sliver thin,and having cut it,hang i...

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...

I can certainly throw out some observation about the process of creating which may be of use. Firstl...