Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Anne Rice

253. “Don’t make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.”

— Anne Rice

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

257. “The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don’t know whether I’m the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn’t I dominate it?”

— Anne Rice

258. “All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.”

— Anne Rice

259. “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

260. “I adore my Queen and I am here with you. I love you both. I yield to that entirely as well as everything else and even the knowledge I may be punished. And when I am punished, I shall dread it, and suffer it and understand it and accept it. when you accept you will flower in the pain, you will flower in your suffering.”

— Anne Rice

261. “Here’s my love, not in little droplets, but from the very river of my being. It reaches all the way down to the roots of my being, tangling my heart in its burning mesh. For you. Drink deep.”

— Anne Rice

262. “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

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

— Anne Rice

264. “Happy Halloween, vampire boys and girls.”

— Anne Rice

265. “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

266. “In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.”

— Anne Rice

267. “The stars shone as brightly as if they were tumbling on the Final Day.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

270. “It’s the risk that fascinates, the moment of infinite possibility.”

— Anne Rice

271. “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

272. “I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I’d ever wanted to do.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

274. “I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

276. “Obsession led me to write. It’s been that way with every book I’ve ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.”

— Anne Rice

277. “How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.”

— Anne Rice

278. “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

279. “Love is the only defense we ever have against the cold meaninglessness around us.”

— Anne Rice

280. “He wanted to say this was not erotic. But it was erotic, insofar as anything and everything is.”

— Anne Rice

281. “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

282. “Tonio Treschi was that half man, that less than man that arouses the contempt of every whole man who looks upon it. Tonio Treschi was that thing which women cannot leave alone and men find infinitely disturbing, frightening, pathetic, the butt of jokes and endless bullying, the necessary evil of the church choirs and the opera stage which is, outside that artifice and grace and soaring music, very simply monstrous.”

— Anne Rice

283. “Music like that could hurt you. It gave you back your disappointment, and your emptiness. It said, Life can be this. Remember this.”

— Anne Rice

284. “There are too many other inexplicable things around us – horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty’s dead.”

— Anne Rice

285. “If goodness does exist, then I’m the opposite of it. I’m evil, and I revel in it.”

— Anne Rice

286. “Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.”

— Anne Rice

287. “I want to be read. I want to be valued. That is perhaps the only shot at immortality a human being can have.”

— Anne Rice

288. “And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.”

— Anne Rice

289. “This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don’t you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?”

— Anne Rice

290. “Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.”

— Anne Rice

291. “The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can’t live without her.”

— Anne Rice

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292. “What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.”

— Anne Rice

293. “To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?”

— Anne Rice

294. “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

295. “But what endures is what has always mattered: love – that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good – that hope will be realized through love.”

— Anne Rice

296. “We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.”

— Anne Rice

297. “In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art – the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard’s canvases – beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.”

— Anne Rice

298. “I closed my eyes and heard the wind and the sound of water flowing softly, swiftly in the river. It was enough, for one moment. And I knew that it would not endure, that it would fly away from me like something torn out of my arms, and I would fly after it, more desperately lonely than any creature under God, to get it back.”

— Anne Rice

299. “Truth is a risky proposition. It’s the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.”

— Anne Rice

300. “I don’t know whether I’m the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn’t I dominate it? I’m the one really telling it, after all.”

— Anne Rice