Barnabas Quotes & Sayings

For most men, time moves slowly, oh so slowly, they don't even realize it. But time has revealed itself to me in a very special way. Time is a rushing, howling wind that rages past me, withering me in a single, relentless blast, and then continues on. I've been sitting here passively, submissive to its rage, watching its work. Listen! Time, howling, withering! — Barnabas

Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone! — Barnabas

There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies. — Barnabas

Family is the only real wealth, — Barnabas

They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work ... — Barnabas

Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage. — Barnabas

Said Jesus, with a sigh: 'This is the greatest misery that man can suffer, O Barnabas. For man cannot here upon earth have God his creator always in memory; saving them that are holy, for they always have God in memory, because they have in them the light of the grace of God, so that they cannot forget God. But tell me, have ye seen them that work quarried stones, how by their constant practice they have so learned to strike that they speak with others and all the time are striking the iron tool that worketh the stone without looking at the iron, and yet they do not strike their hands? Now do ye likewise. Desire to be holy if ye wish to overcome entirely this misery of forgetfulness. Sure it is that water cleaveth the hardest rocks with a single drop striking there for a long period. — Barnabas

Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day. — Barnabas

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly! — Barnabas

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun. — Barnabas

It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us ... — Barnabas