457 Quotes by Clive Barker

This is the state of the beast,′ it said, ’to eat and be eaten.

He wouldn’t be remembered well.

You’re damned if you can’t forgive, Jude.

Love makes its demands, and you listen. You can’t bargain with it. You can’t fight it. Not if it’s really love.

He loved getting crucified at the summer and winter solstices,” Norma told Harry. Norma listened while the invisible presence added something to this. “He says you should try it, Harry. A crucifixion and a good blow job. Heaven on Earth.

The wind was not invisible. It had a texture, as though it carried a weight of dust, the motes steadily gumming up her eyes and sealing her nose, finding its way into her underwear and up into her body by those routes too.

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul – and she possesses many – she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

A sweet slip of a girl like you, why should you have to know anything about the sorrow of the world? You just believe me when I tell you... there’s no way to live your life to the full and not have a reason to shed a tear now and again. It’s not a bad feeling, child. That’s what a lament does. It makes you feel happy to be sad, in a strange way. D’you see?

War is but a continuation of diplomacy by alternate means.