457 Quotes by Clive Barker

Then, having finished with his gesture of remorse, he sat down, like any decent man who has been deeply wronged, and planned murder.

She’s got powers,” said de Bono, taking off his spectacles and surveying the terrain ahead. “Most women have, of course.

Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion.

Her mother had always said that women, being more at peace with themselves than men, needed fewer distractions from their hurts.

She had long ago accepted that life was unfair. But why, when she’d accepted the bitter truth, did circumstance insist on rubbing her face in it?

Nothing, I had come to believe by the end, was more illusory than the idea of ending.

The way she saw it, she was lucky. She wasn’t really blind – she just saw a different world from most other folks, and that put her in a unique position to do some good in the world.

Sometimes, of course, the war required that he be cruel, but what cause worth fighting for did not require cruelty of its champions once in a while?

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke – Aye, and what then? – S. T. Coleridge, Anima Poetae.