Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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

452. “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

453. “We have the future now,” she whispered. “Does it matter that we’ve wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past?”

— Anne Rice

454. “You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.”

— Anne Rice

455. “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

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

— Anne Rice

457. “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

458. “God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

460. “I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

462. “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

463. “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

464. “There is no normal life. There is only life.”

— Anne Rice

465. “I’m ashamed, ashamed that I want you and that it sustains me to think, just to think, that because of all you’ve lost, you might love me.”

— Anne Rice

466. “I mean it’s a concept born out of moral idiocy, this idea of love!”

— Anne Rice

467. “And you have never given me your love.”

— Anne Rice

468. “My body is no schoolboy.”

— Anne Rice

469. “The one thing you share with every mortal is death.”

— Anne Rice

470. “Yes, something about the fabric of life ripping for a moment so you glimpsed things you shouldn’t have seen.”

— Anne Rice

471. “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

472. “We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.”

— Anne Rice

473. “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

474. “I understand the very definition of “hate” when I think of you.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

477. “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

478. “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

479. “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

480. “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

481. “I watched them with the eyes of a hungry ghost.”

— Anne Rice

482. “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

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

— Anne Rice

484. “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

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

— Anne Rice

486. “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

487. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

490. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

494. “Poetry is truth... It is the highest truth, and eloquence is its attribute.”

— Anne Rice

495. “He had learned something from a book which others believed must be learned from doing or practice.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

498. “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

499. “How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don’t you see, everybody hates God now. It’s not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It’s that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice