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Clive Barker Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were.”
— Clive Barker, Flash Wisdom
Tagged: graveyards, Death, Past
“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 else.”
— Clive Barker, Imajica
Tagged: Fear, Holding Back, Afraid, Losing Everything
“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, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman’s face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you’d been before.”
— Clive Barker, Galilee
Tagged: beauty, broken
“I believe the desire to be frightened is as universal as the desire to be loved. We want to take the journey that allows us to survive what the people with whom you're taking the journey do not survive.”
— Clive Barker, Halloween: 25 Years of Terror(2006) Documentary
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us, Fear
“So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell ring.”
— Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart: A Novel
Tagged: first lines of books
“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”
— Clive Barker, Absolute Midnight
Tagged: Death, Suffering, Pain
“[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, Scared Stiff
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“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, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
Tagged: Horror, Writing, Why things scare us
“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
— Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vols. 1-3
Tagged: Blood, Death, humans
“You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”
— Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vols. 1-3
Tagged: creepy, Blood, beauty, alive
“Here is a list of terrible things,
The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before,
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.”
— Clive Barker, Days Of Magic, Nights Of War
Tagged: Fear, creepy, Death
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