Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

203. “Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile.”

— Anne Rice

204. “I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat’s iridescent eyes, that I’d sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.”

— Anne Rice

205. “I’ve lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,′ I said. ‘Actors and musicians-they’re saints to me.”

— Anne Rice

206. “Pure evil has no real place. And that means, doesn’t it, that I have no place. Except, perhaps, in the art that repudiates evil – the vampire comics, the horror novels, the old gothic tales – or in the roaring chants of the rock stars who dramatize the battles against evil that each mortal fights within himself.”

— Anne Rice

207. “How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child’s clothes?”

— Anne Rice

208. “I clasped his face in both hands as I kissed him. “You don’t know how I need you, how I love you, how I always have,” I whispered in his ear. Maybe he would find me more charming on account of what’s befallen me – the unexpected horror I’ve seen, the inevitable pain I’ve endured. It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit.”

— Anne Rice

209. “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

210. “Perhaps this is the only real evil left.”

— Anne Rice

211. “So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.”

— Anne Rice

212. “I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two.”

— Anne Rice

213. “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.-Marius.”

— Anne Rice

214. “And we are this, this only, this ecstasy that flesh can give to flesh.”

— Anne Rice

215. “You understood my soul, I thought, and now others are coming only to sack my heart of all its riches. What am I to do? We argued, yes, you and I, but it was with loving respect, was it not? I cannot endure without you. Please come to me, from wherever you are.”

— Anne Rice

216. “He’s picked you because you are careless and flamboyant and vain. Oh, I don’t say this to hurt you. Truly I don’t. You long to be seen and approached and understood and to get into mischief, to stir everything up and see if it won’t boil over and if God won’t come down and grab you by.”

— Anne Rice

217. “I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”

— Anne Rice

218. “In a daze, I saw him stretch out his arms to me. It struck me that never in all my life had I beheld anyone quite as beautiful as he was, and it was not merely the sum of his physical attributes, it was the pure serenity, the essence that I perceived with my innermost soul. A lovely euphoria came over me as he spoke.”

— Anne Rice

219. “Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.”

— Anne Rice

220. “And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.”

— Anne Rice

221. “This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.”

— Anne Rice

222. “It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.”

— Anne Rice

223. “The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.”

— Anne Rice

224. “For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that’s all. But life is more important than death.”

— Anne Rice

225. “My last sunrise,’ said the vampire. ‘That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise.”

— Anne Rice

226. “I don’t believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think.”

— Anne Rice

227. “Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!”

— Anne Rice

228. “I am in love with you’, I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. ‘Of course you are,’ he replied. ‘I understand perfectly because I’m in love with myself. The fact that I’m not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.’ It was my turn to laugh.”

— Anne Rice

229. “I was good and bad, but never wicked.”

— Anne Rice

230. “Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

232. “I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”

— Anne Rice

233. “Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.”

— Anne Rice

234. “Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.”

— Anne Rice

235. “I do want to go another way – to write something completely different.”

— Anne Rice

236. “Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.”

— Anne Rice

237. “And so a ghost of him had been created by her hatred and her rage. It was fading, yet it still stalked her, even here in the safe hallways of her own domain.”

— Anne Rice

238. “Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.”

— Anne Rice

239. “I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.”

— Anne Rice

240. “It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.”

— Anne Rice

241. “When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can’t say it enough.”

— Anne Rice

242. “I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.”

— Anne Rice

243. “Lestat: Toughen up baby. I’m looking for the eternal scum.”

— Anne Rice

244. “I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.”

— Anne Rice

245. “Can you picture it, this splendid domesticity, dim lamps, the vampire father singing to the vampire daughter? Only the doll had a human face, only the doll.”

— Anne Rice

246. “The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.”

— Anne Rice

247. “Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!”

— Anne Rice

248. “And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life.”

— Anne Rice

249. “We truly are all one tribe,” said the iron-haired ghost softly. “Human, vampire, spirit, ghost – we’re all sentient creatures bound to this planet. Why can’t we work together in the face of something like this?”

— Anne Rice

250. “Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he’s not spoken of enough.”

— Anne Rice