Quotes of Clive Barker - somelinesforyou

“ Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. ”

- Clive Barker

“ I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I knew all of Creation, I dreamed I knew the Creator's name. I dreamedand this dream was the finest That all I dreamed was real and true, And we would live in joy forever, You in me, and me in you. ”

- Clive Barker

“ Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love ”

- Clive Barker

“ Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. ”

- Clive Barker

“ I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I knew all of Creation, I dreamed I knew the Creator's name. I dreamedand this dream was the finest That all I dreamed was real and true, And we would live in joy forever, You in me, and me in you. ”

- Clive Barker

“ I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed; New states, new souls. ”

- Clive Barker

“ I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born. ”

- Clive Barker

“ [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. ”

- Clive Barker

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

- Clive Barker

“ I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I knew all of Creation, I dreamed I knew the Creator's name. I dreamedand this dream was the finest That all I dreamed was real and true, And we would live in joy forever, You in me, and me in you. ”

- Clive Barker

“ 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. ”

- Clive Barker

“ There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merrygoround, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved. ”

- Clive Barker

“ The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he'd be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn't that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I'll look when the wet parts are rotted. ”

- Clive Barker

“ As long as they could still be moved by a minor chord, or brought to a crisis of tears by scenes of lovers reunited; as long as there was room in their cautious hearts for games of chance, and laughter in the face of God, that must surely be enough to save them, at the last. If not, there was no hope for any living thing. ”

- Clive Barker

“ It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant. ”

- Clive Barker

“ We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always. ”

- Clive Barker

“ Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything... ”

- Clive Barker

“ I'll love you until the death of love ”

- Clive Barker

“ The loss only shows how far backwards we have gone in Africa,... But all we can do now is to roll back our sleeves and make changes and look forward to the future. ”

- Clive Barker

“ At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them. ”

- Clive Barker

“ Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they're feeling righteous. ”

- Clive Barker

“ To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world! ”

- Clive Barker

“ Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word! ”

- Clive Barker

“ To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world! ”

- Clive Barker

“ At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them. ”

- Clive Barker

“ It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. ”

- Clive Barker

“ Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word! ”

- Clive Barker

“ I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence. ”

- Clive Barker

“ I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence. ”

- Clive Barker

“ But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. ”

- Clive Barker
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