Clive Barker > Quotes

“All rising to great place is by a winding stair. —Sir Francis Bacon,”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

“He was not happier at his mother’s nipple than in that ring of demons.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 2

“Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than “I’ll never leave you.”
― Clive Barker, Cabal

“Did that mean they were both tainted then? Or was it not a question of sin and innocence; darkness and light? Did they somehow stand between the extremes, in a place reserved for lovers?”
― Clive Barker, The Great And Secret Show

“Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable.”
― Clive Barker

“She was indeed tired , as she'd claimed , but it wasn't the cooking that exhausted her. It was the effort of suppressing her contempt for the damn fools who were gathered in the lounge below. She'd called them friends once , these half-wits , with their poor jokes and poorer pretensions.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“This idea stayed with me for several years before I found an adequate way to express it. I called the sea Quiddity, and slowly developed a mythology around it. Human beings would enter Quiddity, the dream-sea, three times, I decided. Once when they were born, once when they slept beside the person they would love most in their lives, and once before they died. Three life-changing immersions in the sea of the unconscious. Three confrontations with the secret show of our dreams.”
― Clive Barker, The Great And Secret Show

“Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself. So”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“God's an astronaut
Oz is over the rainbow
and Median is where the monsters live.”
― Clive Barker-Cabal

“was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.”
― Clive Barker, Tonight, Again

“except that she was sleeping not in preparation for a new day but for endless night.”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

“I don’t remember nineteen,” Will said. “Or twenty, come to that. I have a very vague recollection of twenty-one—” He laughed. “But you get to a place when you’re so high you’re not high anymore.”
― Clive Barker, Sacrament

“A feeling of intense loss overwhelmed him for a moment as he thought of his once-charmed life—of love, and magic, and friends, all of it, and all of them, dead.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“and what constitutes the making of a true storyteller; someone who speaks directly to the reader’s dreams with dreams of their own.”
― Clive Barker, Where Nightmares Come From

“And why not? The world made miracles like this every moment of every day: egg into chick, seed into flower, maggot into fly. Now man into fox? was that possible?
Oh yes, said the House of the World. Yes, and yes, and always yes-”
― Clive Barker, Sacrament

“Nothing would take him, he was a barbarian with the manners of a gentleman. Neither”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 2

“Arnie had always called her a dreamer, and maybe he was right about that.”
― Clive Barker, Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story

“A jug of his urine – the product of seven days’ collection – stood on the left of the altar, should they require some spontaneous gesture of self-defilement.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart: Open the doorway to ultimate pleasure…

“Everybody is a book of blood; Wherever we’re opened, we’re red. The Book of Blood The dead have highways.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vol. 1

“She was liquid; a boundless sea in a single body, a deluge in a small room, and I will gladly drown in her, if she grants me the chance.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 2

“If you were alone on earth, what would you know? What the mirror told you, that's all. The rest would be myth and conjecture.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 3

“I love you,”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

“Heaven will provide. Or else it won't, and I'll go hungry.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“But darkness loved lovers, even if the world no longer did.”
― Clive Barker, Imajica: Featuring New Illustrations and an Appendix

“Whatever you do, don’t look back.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“Let’s prioritise here. At the risk of stating the obvious, this isn’t going to be easy. We need to find Norma as fast as we can, avoid the powerful demon that wants me as his slave, and then get the fuck out of Hell. I’m sure we’ll encounter some heinous, unthinkable, soul-scarring shit along the way, but hopefully we make it out alive.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“Somebody’s voice rose in prayer, another simply sobbed. What grief was this? Not his passing, surely. He was too minor to earn such lamentation.”
― Clive Barker, Imajica: A spellbinding epic fantasy novel

“...es mejor estar preparados para lo peor y es de sabios aprender a caminar antes de perder el aliento.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One

“Imagination was true power: it worked transformations wealth and influence never could.”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld