Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Don’t cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions.”

— Anne Rice

152. “Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!′ he whispered under his breath. ‘You are a brat prince.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

154. “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

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

— Anne Rice

156. “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

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

— Anne Rice

158. “Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?”

— Anne Rice

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Anne Rice

164. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

167. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

173. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

179. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

187. “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

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

— Anne Rice

189. “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

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

— Anne Rice

191. “I’m supposed to be the rebellious one, l’enfant terrible.”

— Anne Rice

192. “The human heart is my school.”

— Anne Rice

193. “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

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

— Anne Rice

195. “But there is no value to suffering! There is only value, said Derek, to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!”

— Anne Rice

196. “I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn’t work out.”

— Anne Rice

197. “Maybe that’s what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.”

— Anne Rice

198. “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

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

— Anne Rice

200. “The world doesn’t need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.”

— Anne Rice