Clive Barker Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

3. 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 dreamed--and 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. Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

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

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

6. Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything... Abarat: Absolute Midnight

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