457 Quotes by Clive Barker

No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.

The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessly happy, weren’t they?

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

Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.

I remember when I watched ‘Hellraiser’ with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours.

Didn’t open the box? What was it last time? Didn’t know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don’t we? – Cenobite.

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.

We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were.

My life is in the art that I make, and I’m very happy with it.