Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Don’t let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that’s happened.”

— Anne Rice

52. “Obviously, a writer can’t know everything about what she writes. It’s impossible.”

— Anne Rice

53. “The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They’ve always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.”

— Anne Rice

54. “Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”

— Anne Rice

55. “Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt.”

— Anne Rice

56. “To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.”

— Anne Rice

57. “One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”

— Anne Rice

58. “It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.”

— Anne Rice

59. “Claudia, you’ve been a very very naughty little girl.”

— Anne Rice

60. “My conscience is killing me, isn’t it? And when you’re immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death.”

— Anne Rice

61. “A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.”

— Anne Rice

62. “Don’t you see? I’m not the spirit of any age. I’m at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!”

— Anne Rice

63. “For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.”

— Anne Rice

64. “I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.”

— Anne Rice

65. “I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”

— Anne Rice

66. “I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.”

— Anne Rice

67. “I assume I don’t need an introduction.”

— Anne Rice

68. “People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

— Anne Rice

69. “What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.”

— Anne Rice

70. “Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan’s power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God’s child, and that we are God’s children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”

— Anne Rice

71. “Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.”

— Anne Rice

72. “Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we’ll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.”

— Anne Rice

73. “Remember always, he said, that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this-that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life.”

— Anne Rice

74. “To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

— Anne Rice

75. “I’m Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.”

— Anne Rice

76. “It’s all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.”

— Anne Rice

77. “Treasure the pain; treasure what you have with her, including the fear. Treasure what you may have, including the failure. Treasure it because if we don’t live this life, if we don’t live it to the fullest year after year and century after century, well, then, we die.”

— Anne Rice

78. “Your cigarette has become one long cylindrical ash.”

— Anne Rice

79. “Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn’t know.”

— Anne Rice

80. “There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.”

— Anne Rice

81. “The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.”

— Anne Rice

82. “In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.”

— Anne Rice

83. “Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.”

— Anne Rice

84. “Aren’t there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”

— Anne Rice

85. “The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.”

— Anne Rice

86. “And then the blood erupted, roared. Don’t rush this! I was the victim suddenly laid waste as if by a phallic god, slammed by the rushing blood against the floor of the universe, the heart pounding, emptying the frail form it sought to protect. And lo, she was dead. Oh, too soon. Crushed lily on the pillow, except she’d been no lily and I’d seen her grimy petty purple crimes as that blood made a fool of me, wasted me, left me warm, indeed hot, all over, licking my lips.”

— Anne Rice

87. “I’ll tell you, but you’ll never understand. You’re on the wrong side of the dark glass. Only the dead know how terrible it is to be alive.”

— Anne Rice

88. “Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds – justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

— Anne Rice

89. “Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.”

— Anne Rice

90. “Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.”

— Anne Rice

91. “Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?”

— Anne Rice

92. “The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.”

— Anne Rice

93. “I can’t keep up with Stephen King’s output.”

— Anne Rice

94. “What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, “I will never do that again.””

— Anne Rice

95. “What had really given birth to the Romantic Movement in the history of human ideas was affluence – an increase in the number of people who had plenty enough to eat, enough education to read and write, and time to ruminate on their own personal emotions.”

— Anne Rice

96. “But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.”

— Anne Rice

97. “I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew. The bastard monster who made me what I am picked me on account of my good looks. That’s the long and short of it. And accidents like that occur all the time.”

— Anne Rice

98. “The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty’s dead.”

— Anne Rice

99. “I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.”

— Anne Rice

100. “We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.”

— Anne Rice