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Clive Barker Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were.”
— Clive Barker, Flash Wisdom
Tagged: graveyards, Death, Past
“Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.”
— Clive Barker, The Dark Fantastic
Tagged: creepy, Death, monsters
“So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell ring.”
— Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart: A Novel
Tagged: first lines of books
“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”
— Clive Barker, Absolute Midnight
Tagged: Death, Suffering, Pain
“Burn this book.”
— Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone
Tagged: first lines of books
“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
— Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vols. 1-3
Tagged: Blood, Death, humans
“You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”
— Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Vols. 1-3
Tagged: creepy, Blood, beauty, alive
“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, Days Of Magic, Nights Of War
Tagged: Fear, creepy, Death
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