Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Don’t you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.”

— Anne Rice

152. “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

153. “But vampires feel cold as acutely as humans, and the blood of the kill is often the rich, sensual alleviation of that cold. But.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

155. “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

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

— Anne Rice

157. “Every moment must be first known and then savored.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

159. “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

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

— Anne Rice

161. “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

162. “I stumble through a carnival of horrors.”

— Anne Rice

163. “Be Warned: I sleep as the earth sleeps beneath the night sky or the winter’s snow; and once awakened, I am servant to no man.”

— Anne Rice

164. “Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.”

— Anne Rice

165. “I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.”

— Anne Rice

166. “You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.”

— Anne Rice

167. “Everything is coming to an end, I thought. But what does that mean? Why do I say things to myself when I don’t even know what they mean?”

— Anne Rice

168. “In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”

— Anne Rice

169. “Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.”

— Anne Rice

170. “I never laugh at death, no matter how often and regularly I am the cause of it.”

— Anne Rice

171. “The moon that rose over New Orleans then still rises. As.”

— Anne Rice

172. “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

173. “Sometimes fear is a warning. It’s like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.”

— Anne Rice

174. “As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”

— Anne Rice

175. “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.”

— Anne Rice

176. “Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.”

— Anne Rice

177. “When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.”

— Anne Rice

178. “Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.”

— Anne Rice

179. “The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.”

— Anne Rice

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180. “Why do we weep when we see something beautiful? Why are we weakened by beauty? Why does it break our hearts?”

— Anne Rice

181. “We’re frightened of what makes us different.”

— Anne Rice

182. “Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.”

— Anne Rice

183. “Sometimes hate and love serve exactly the same purpose.”

— Anne Rice

184. “His beauty has always maddened me. I think I idealize him in my mind when I’m not with him; but then when I see him again I’m overcome.”

— Anne Rice

185. “It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory.”

— Anne Rice

186. “I was a human being once,” said the younger ghost. “I was a blood drinker for centuries after that. And I am a ghost now. And my soul has been my soul in all three forms.”

— Anne Rice

187. “Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?”

— Anne Rice

188. “Lestat might be the hero of the Vampire Chronicles, but this one, Louis, was the tragic heart. Yet he seemed at long last to have achieved a kind of peace with the ghastly realities of his existence and the existence of all those around him who outranked him in power but not necessarily in insight or wisdom.”

— Anne Rice

189. “It had been the golden time of evening when the sun is gone and everything gives back the light it has absorbed all day long.”

— Anne Rice

190. “And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.”

— Anne Rice

191. “The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.”

— Anne Rice

192. “That was my nature – going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.”

— Anne Rice

193. “Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.”

— Anne Rice

194. “My own funeral, I’d like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.”

— Anne Rice

195. “Remember me not for my weakness, for my sins, or for my poor judgment. But that I loved you.”

— Anne Rice

196. “Muy pocos seres buscan de verdad el conocimiento en este mundo. Mortales o inmortales, son escasos los que hacen preguntas. Al contrario, casi todos intentan extraer de lo desconocido las respuestas a las que ya han dado forma en sus propias mentes; justificaciones, confirmaciones, formas de consuelo sin las cuales serian incapaces de continuar adelante. Preguntar de verdad es abrir la puerta a un torbellino. La respues puede aniquilar a la vez la pregunta y quien la hace.”

— Anne Rice

197. “My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself.”

— Anne Rice

198. “Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.”

— Anne Rice

199. “It draws it’s strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.”

— Anne Rice

200. “The human heart is my school.”

— Anne Rice