Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty,” he insisted, “and every other key virtue we learned as humans.” He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.”

— Anne Rice

452. “I’m definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there’s no doubt about that.”

— Anne Rice

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453. “I broke with my religion in college.”

— Anne Rice

454. “Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a movement, like a drop in temperature. Silence. There.”

— Anne Rice

455. “Who could trust language?”

— Anne Rice

456. “Did all the answers lie beyond the open door? Is the future beyond the open door? For after all, why could this not become, in spite of everything, a mere chapter of her life, marked off and seldom reread, once she had returned to the outside world where she had been kept all these years, quite beyond the spells and enchantments that were now claiming her? Oh, but it wasn’t going to be. Because when you fell prey to a spell this strong, you were never the same.”

— Anne Rice

457. “I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.”

— Anne Rice

458. “If you don’t see something that you like to read, but cannot find it. Write it and make it exist.”

— Anne Rice

459. “When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.”

— Anne Rice

460. “You painted armless beings, swimming in blinding color, and they had to exist like that forever. Could they see you with all those tiny, scattered eyes? Or did they only see the heaven and hell of their own shining realm, anchored to the studs in the wall by a piece of twisted wire?”

— Anne Rice

461. “You haven’t found all the answers yet. Electricity, telephones, these are lovely magic. But the poor go unfed. Men kill for what they cannot gain by their own labour. How to share the magic, the riches, the secrets, that is still the problem.”

— Anne Rice

462. “There may be writing groups where people meet but it’s occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.”

— Anne Rice

463. “I found her more alluring than any woman I’d known in mortal life.”

— Anne Rice

464. “He took another quick swallow of the coffee. Tasted awful to him, though it was good coffee, he’d brewed it himself. A beer was what he wanted. Not to have a beer right now was like not breathing. But it was just too great a risk.”

— Anne Rice

465. “Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of “redeeming everything that ever happens to them.”

— Anne Rice

466. “I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?”

— Anne Rice

467. “The woman was forty-one years old, yet she looked both ancient and young – a stooped and pale child, untouched by adult worry or passion. Deirdre, did you ever have a lover? Did you ever dance in that parlor?”

— Anne Rice

468. “Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands.”

— Anne Rice

469. “Never make a blood drinker of a greater age, said Eudoxia. For a greater mortal age can only lead to misery later on from habits learned in mortal life.”

— Anne Rice

470. “It’s Stella. Stella’s got the gift and she’ll get everything when I die.’ ‘And what’s the gift, Miss Mary Beth?’ my mother asked her. ‘Why, Stella’s seen the man,’ Miss Mary Beth said to my mother. ‘And the one who can see the man when she’s all alone inherits all.”

— Anne Rice

471. “And money you have, Rose. Plenty of it. And time. And if time can’t give us freedom to do what we want, what good is time?”

— Anne Rice

472. “I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.”

— Anne Rice

473. “In perfect understanding, it seemed, they looked at each other. Questions of failure, of haste, all the what if’s of life, did not matter. The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him.”

— Anne Rice

474. “Why don’t people do what they really want to do, Reuben?” he asked. “Why do we so often settle for what makes us devoutly unhappy! Why do we accept that happiness just isn’t possible?”

— Anne Rice

475. “Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.”

— Anne Rice

476. “You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don’t know each other very well.”

— Anne Rice

477. “And won’t the world be better if no one is ever again burnt in the name of God?” I asked. “If there is no more faith in God to make men do that to each other? What is the danger in a secular world where horrors like that don’t happen?”

— Anne Rice

478. “She was innately suspicious of language because she could “hear” with remarkable accuracy what lay behind it, and also she just didn’t know how to talk very well.”

— Anne Rice

479. “Out, out, brief candle.” Such comforting remembrance can turn in an instant to agony.”

— Anne Rice

480. “I wasn’t sent here to find angels! I wasn’t sent here to dream of them. I wasn’t sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.”

— Anne Rice

481. “What mattered now was only that I understood what it meant to cherish others and to cherish life itself. I.”

— Anne Rice

482. “I guess we don’t know what’s real or unreal,′ she had said without meaning to. ‘You stare at anything long enough and suddenly it looks monstrous.”

— Anne Rice

483. “I am a wise God and a patient God,” He said. “I am the One who made you.” The images vanished.”

— Anne Rice

484. “I have named them the hounds of Sisyphus.”

— Anne Rice

485. “We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.”

— Anne Rice

486. “Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I’m not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We’re beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we’re merciless killers.”

— Anne Rice

487. “You have a light in you that’s almost blinding. But in me there’s only darkness. Sometimes I think it’s like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to tremble. You were so helpless, so unprepared for it. I try to keep the darkness from you because I need your light. I need it desperately, but you don’t need the darkness.”

— Anne Rice

488. “I no longer represent any organized religion. I’m not Catholic. I’m not Christian. I’m saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.”

— Anne Rice

489. “Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished.”

— Anne Rice

490. “Tis the gift to be simple... ‘Tis the gift to be free...”

— Anne Rice

491. “The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.”

— Anne Rice

492. “Beethoven’s Ninth. I played the torture part. I played the Second Movement.”

— Anne Rice

493. “I claim Dickens as a mentor. He’s my teacher. He’s one of my driving forces.”

— Anne Rice

494. “But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn’t know.”

— Anne Rice

495. “We all need love, don’t we, even the worst killers, the worst animals! We all need love.”

— Anne Rice

496. “His eyes closed for a split second and he sank against Armand’s shoulder, feeling Armand’s hand on his back. Far away he heard Armand’s voice: “What do I do with you, my beloved? Especially now, when I myself am so afraid.”

— Anne Rice

497. “The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.”

— Anne Rice

498. “His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.”

— Anne Rice

499. “We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?”

— Anne Rice

500. “Although we cannot number the infinite, nevertheless it can be comprehended by Him whose knowledge has no bounds.”

— Anne Rice