Clive Barker Quotes

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

I'm not the same person that I used to be.

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

Everything changes, even stone.

None of us are what we once were.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.