It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone. Clive Barker More Quotes by Clive Barker More Quotes From Clive Barker Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat Clive Barker soul two believe Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints. Clive Barker eight pride class The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course. Clive Barker eye beautiful art If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness. Clive Barker monday morning night The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything. Clive Barker enlightenment age desire I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. Clive Barker way fiction thinking I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies. Clive Barker painting book people For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making. Clive Barker advantage world thinking She was a sea: and I had to swim in her. Clive Barker swim sea The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all. Clive Barker sun rose clouds I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot. Clive Barker running beautiful children There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion. Clive Barker life-and-love band art What worth was a man who could not be haunted? Clive Barker men She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing. Clive Barker just-a-girl girl knows My feet are killing me." "I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used to wake up with footprints all over his chest, all over his face. It was the death of him, finally. Clive Barker wake-up names feet One man's pornography is another man's theology. Clive Barker pornography theology men My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident. Clive Barker self father book Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been. Clive Barker filling-up eye should-have Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves. Clive Barker stars eye fun You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst. Clive Barker things-in-life being-the-best honey
