Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Don’t be a fool for the devil, darling! Unless he treats you a damn sight better than the Almighty!”

— Anne Rice

102. “Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.”

— Anne Rice

103. “The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”

— Anne Rice

104. “I love you still, that’s the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!”

— Anne Rice

105. “Don’t be a fool for the Devil, darling.”

— Anne Rice

106. “I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!”

— Anne Rice

107. “The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty – eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I’ve done.”

— Anne Rice

108. “The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.”

— Anne Rice

109. “And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.”

— Anne Rice

110. “But let me be a lover in the Savage Garden with you, and the light that went out of life would come back in a great burst of glory. Out of mortal flesh I would pass into eternity. I would be one of you.” – Daniel.”

— Anne Rice

111. “How pathetic it is to describe these things which can’t truly be described.”

— Anne Rice

112. “The Coven of the Articulate – A modern slang term popular among the Undead for the vampires whose stories appear in the Vampire Chronicles – particularly Louis, Lestat, Pandora, Marius, and Armand.”

— Anne Rice

113. “If there is any sea as blue as the Caribbean I have never beheld it, and when it is seen at twilight, it is most spectacular, but then you will hear more of this later, for I have had much time to contemplate the color of this sea. On.”

— Anne Rice

114. “Pain. Unspeakable pain. It didn’t matter who in this world or any other was staring at me, watching me, seeking to share this moment or merely shuddering as I experienced it. Just didn’t matter. Because in pain like this one is always alone.”

— Anne Rice

115. “An actor said at one point that evil was a necessity. It was food for genius.”

— Anne Rice

116. “I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.”

— Anne Rice

117. “When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.”

— Anne Rice

118. “Hell’s Bells ringing, my secret music...”

— Anne Rice

119. “The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.”

— Anne Rice

120. “He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.”

— Anne Rice

121. “An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.”

— Anne Rice

122. “It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.”

— Anne Rice

123. “Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that’s ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”

— Anne Rice

124. “You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can’t exist without you, you make me miserable.”

— Anne Rice

125. “What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?”

— Anne Rice

126. “I’ve always been proud of you, except when you retreat, and give in to your suffering. I haven’t been so proud when you do that. But you always come back. No matter how dreadful the defeat, you come back.”

— Anne Rice

127. “But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I’m not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.”

— Anne Rice

128. “I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.”

— Anne Rice

129. “I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.”

— Anne Rice

130. “You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn’t it? I shall never ever grow up.”

— Anne Rice

131. “He had grieved for me, I’ll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.”

— Anne Rice

132. “I love you with my whole soul, and I will always love you,” he confided to me. “You are my life. I have hated you for that and love you now so much that you’ve been my instructor in loving. And believe me when I say you will survive this, and that you must for all of us. You will survive because you always have and you always will.”

— Anne Rice

133. “What would Christ need have done to make me follow him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair.”

— Anne Rice

134. “God triumphs on the ruins of our plans’. And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which, we’ve never dreamed. Let’s trust that that is what is happening here for each of us”.”

— Anne Rice

135. “And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic. And in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire’s arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.”

— Anne Rice

136. “God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.”

— Anne Rice

137. “It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”

— Anne Rice

138. “Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this. And it seemed in a murmuring pulse of thought he gave me to know that I had been very foolish to think it would not be so. Who can love us, you and I, as we can love each other, he whispered and it seemed his lips actually moved.”

— Anne Rice

139. “You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.”

— Anne Rice

140. “Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.”

— Anne Rice

141. “Time can tick when there is no clock.”

— Anne Rice

142. “A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.”

— Anne Rice

143. “My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.”

— Anne Rice

144. “Don’t cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions.”

— Anne Rice

145. “We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.”

— Anne Rice

146. “I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.”

— Anne Rice

147. “One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”

— Anne Rice

148. “Invest in a feather duster – the possibilities are endless.”

— Anne Rice

149. “Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men’s treasures are not yours.”

— Anne Rice

150. “The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.”

— Anne Rice