Clive Barker Quotes

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

I am freedom and I will eat your heart

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.