Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I was good and bad, but never wicked.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

257. “I wasn’t part of the world that cringed at such things. And with a smile, I realized that I was of that dark ilk that makes others cringe. Slowly and with great pleasure, I laughed.”

— Anne Rice

258. “A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.”

— Anne Rice

259. “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

260. “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

261. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

264. “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

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

— Anne Rice

266. “Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

268. “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

269. “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

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

— Anne Rice

271. “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

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

— Anne Rice

273. “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

274. “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

275. “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

276. “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

277. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

281. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

285. “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

286. “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

287. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

290. “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

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

— Anne Rice

292. “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

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

— Anne Rice

294. “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

295. “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

296. “The blood ran in tiny rivulets down his white face, as if from Christ’s Crown of Thorns, his long blond hair flying out as he turned full circle, his hand ripping at his shirt, tearing it open down his chest, the black tie loose and falling. His pale crystalline blue eyes were glazed and shot with blood as he screamed the unimportant lyrics.”

— Anne Rice

297. “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

298. “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

299. “It’s hard to imagine Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Interview with the Vampire.”

— Anne Rice

300. “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