457 Quotes by Clive Barker

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.

She would wait and watch, as she had always watched and waited, hoping that such a puzzle would one day come to her. But if it failed to show itself she would not grieve too deeply, for fear that the mending of broken hearts be a puzzle neither wit nor time had the skill to solve.

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

They will say your doubts shed innocent blood. But I say - what's blood for, if not for shedding?

Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now, the better part of two thousand in fact, is that God has been slowly and steadily accruing power. His church has been accruing power, and the men who run that church, and they are all men, are not about to give it up. If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort.

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

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

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-

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.