Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “Maybe we do go home, finally.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

307. “Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

314. “God kills, and so shall we...”

— Anne Rice

315. “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

316. “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

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Anne Rice

320. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

323. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

326. “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

327. “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

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

— Anne Rice

329. “It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat’s black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

332. “You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don’t know everything about it. You can’t.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

334. “So you’re saying that demons aren’t as smart as angels.” “Perhaps they could be,” he said, “but their state of mind interferes with their intelligence. It interferes with their observations, and their conclusions. It interferes with everything that they do. Theirs is a hideous predicament. They refuse to admit that they have lost.” That was beautiful. I liked it. I liked the puzzle of it and the truth of it.”

— Anne Rice

335. “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

336. “Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

339. “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

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

— Anne Rice

341. “How could I not love it, the mere idea of it? How could it not be worth the greatest danger, the greatest and most ghastly defeat? Even at the moment of destruction, I would be alive as I have never been.”

— Anne Rice

342. “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

343. “Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.”

— Anne Rice

344. “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

345. “I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

347. “Now, when a vampire goes underground as we call it – when he ceases to drink blood and he just lies in the earth – he soon becomes too weak to resurrect himself, and what follows is a dream state.”

— Anne Rice

348. “The entire history of evil in this world is related to what human beings do to one another in order to survive.”

— Anne Rice

349. “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

350. “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