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

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
~ Clive Barker ~












More Clive Barker quotes
"All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin
"The dead have highways." Clive Barker
"I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I thin...
"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 good health to want to unde...
"That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.
"One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the worl...
"O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.
"Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will h...
"Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promis...
"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.
"Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of war,The voice of one who went before,But most of a...
"The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.
"Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begi...
"Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he’d never felt more alive.