Quotes by Clive Barker

Explore a curated collection of 33 quotes by Clive Barker. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love — Clive Barker
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on cha — Clive Barker
Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. — 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 w — 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 gre — Clive Barker
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful — Clive Barker
There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are — Clive Barker
That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's because everything is," re — Clive Barker
I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pret — Clive Barker
We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves. — Clive Barker
I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without — Clive Barker
I can certainly throw out some observation about the process of creating which may be of use. Firstly, it's the best & t — Clive Barker
I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be tru — Clive Barker
Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. To deny monsters as i — Clive Barker
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin — Clive Barker
Dorothea: "What the fuck are you?"Nix: "A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind. — Clive Barker
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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 ov — Clive Barker
I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I have been elected by G — Clive Barker
Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too. It's a book which, — Clive Barker