Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Anne Rice

303. “I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.”

— Anne Rice

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

307. “Wasn’t it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?”

— Anne Rice

308. “And there is another kind of strength in you. A daring, and a hunger, and aloneness. And that hunger and aloneness I know, and I kiss with the lips I do not have; I hold with the arms I do not have; I press to the heart in me that isn’t there to beat with warmth.”

— Anne Rice

309. “Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun.”

— Anne Rice

310. “God, why didn’t you make us all dogs?”

— Anne Rice

311. “I gave one last cry, trying to free my hands, trying to fix upon him, for I knew full well what he meant to do. In a dark flash of movement, he was gone, and I was lying on the floor. The candle had fallen over on the desk and had gone out. Only the light of the dying fire filled the little room. And the shutters of the door stood open, and the rain was falling, thin and quiet, yet steady. And I knew I was completely alone.”

— Anne Rice

312. “Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.”

— Anne Rice

313. “Let me try to tell my stories,′ Marius said. ‘Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams and from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.”

— Anne Rice

314. “What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.”

— Anne Rice

315. “Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.”

— Anne Rice

316. “Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.”

— Anne Rice

317. “I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I’ve always had a very close relationship with them.”

— Anne Rice

318. “Beside him walked a vampire nearly as old as Gregory, and indeed this one was none other than Seth, the son of the ancient Mother.”

— Anne Rice

319. “But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art.”

— Anne Rice

320. “I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.”

— Anne Rice

321. “There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.”

— Anne Rice

322. “There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world – its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That’s all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in “to love” or “to learn” it does not have value.”

— Anne Rice

323. “Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.”

— Anne Rice

324. “I’m too much the slave of my own obsessions and fascination.”

— Anne Rice

325. “It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.”

— Anne Rice

326. “We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.”

— Anne Rice

327. “You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn’t matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.”

— Anne Rice

328. “I thought the curse of memory is this: Everything is ever present.”

— Anne Rice

329. “Does anybody look better in rags than me?”

— Anne Rice

330. “Be it further understood that all mortals who would receive the Dark Gifts should be beautiful in person so that the insult to God might be greater when the Dark Trick is done. Three.”

— Anne Rice

331. “I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.”

— Anne Rice

332. “Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don’t come together in real groups.”

— Anne Rice

333. “That’s our damnation,” he whispered. “Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds.”

— Anne Rice

334. “Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.”

— Anne Rice

335. “God kills, and so shall we...”

— Anne Rice

336. “It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature – going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.”

— Anne Rice

337. “You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow.”

— Anne Rice

338. “Maharet’s skin, which had been so pale and almost luminous in life, so like the inner lining of a seashell.”

— Anne Rice

339. “If money can’t buy you the freedom to do anything you want, well, what is the good of it?”

— Anne Rice

340. “I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I’ll dedicate it to you because you’re the first person who ever made me think I could.”

— Anne Rice

341. “To be godless is probably the first step to innocence,” he said, “to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.” “So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions.”

— Anne Rice

342. “I can’t believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.”

— Anne Rice

343. “And your eyes pass over me as if I don’t exist.”

— Anne Rice

344. “As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.”

— Anne Rice

345. “We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, “I can’t follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment’s passed.”

— Anne Rice

346. “Seems I’d read somewhere, or heard it in a film, that the Jews believe each life is a universe, and if you take a life, well, then you are destroying a universe. And I thought, Yes, this is true of us, this is why we must love one another, because we are each an entire world.”

— Anne Rice

347. “Spiderwebs broken and torn in a wind that is indifferent to their beauty.”

— Anne Rice

348. “I’m always looking, and I’m always asking questions.”

— Anne Rice

349. “In a real way, eternity is merely the living of one human lifetime after another.”

— Anne Rice

350. “Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”

— Anne Rice