Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”

— Anne Rice

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2. “Evil is just a point of view.”

— Anne Rice

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3. “Come on, say it again. I’m a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”

— Anne Rice

4. “If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.”

— Anne Rice

5. “The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.”

— Anne Rice

6. “Motivated employees are crucial to a company’s success.”

— Anne Rice

7. “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”

— Anne Rice

8. “I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.”

— Anne Rice

9. “Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth.”

— Anne Rice

10. “You are someone worth loving.”

— Anne Rice

11. “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.”

— Anne Rice

12. “In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”

— Anne Rice

13. “No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.”

— Anne Rice

14. “Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.”

— Anne Rice

15. “As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.”

— Anne Rice

16. “Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.”

— Anne Rice

17. “When I’m writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”

— Anne Rice

18. “I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.”

— Anne Rice

19. “Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there’s nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don’t know the trick. It’s like whistling or singing.”

— Anne Rice

20. “To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

— Anne Rice

21. “Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”

— Anne Rice

22. “What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.”

— Anne Rice

23. “Don’t be a pawn in somebody’s game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on.”

— Anne Rice

24. “Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn’t a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.”

— Anne Rice

25. “The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”

— Anne Rice

26. “I am the Vampire Lestat. I’m immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”

— Anne Rice

27. “Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I’m writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”

— Anne Rice

28. “I don’t like myself you know. I love myself. I’m devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don’t like myself.”

— Anne Rice

29. “I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.”

— Anne Rice

30. “For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.”

— Anne Rice

31. “I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I’ve always felt that I wasn’t a member of any particular group.”

— Anne Rice

32. “Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.”

— Anne Rice

33. “I want to love all the children of God – Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist – everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.”

— Anne Rice

34. “Let the flesh instruct the mind.”

— Anne Rice

35. “Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.”

— Anne Rice

36. “We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.”

— Anne Rice

37. “It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.”

— Anne Rice

38. “The vampire is an outsider. He’s the perfect metaphor for those things. He’s someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he’s always on the margins.”

— Anne Rice

39. “Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt.”

— Anne Rice

40. “I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.”

— Anne Rice

41. “The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis’s quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?”

— Anne Rice

42. “But death we are, and death we’ve always been.”

— Anne Rice

43. “And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”

— Anne Rice

44. “Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.”

— Anne Rice

45. “The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”

— Anne Rice

46. “The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that’s the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.”

— Anne Rice

47. “Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.”

— Anne Rice

48. “Everyone today has a story; the world’s an archive.”

— Anne Rice

49. “I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine.”

— Anne Rice

50. “I love the one who punishes me well.”

— Anne Rice