Clive Barker Quotes

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

The dark is light enough.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

A light here required a shadow there.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.

When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.