Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “One doesn’t simply glut oneself on blood.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

303. “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

304. “The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

306. “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

307. “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

308. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

312. “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

313. “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

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

— Anne Rice

315. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

319. “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

320. “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

321. “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

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

— Anne Rice

323. “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

324. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

327. “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

328. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

331. “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

332. “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

333. “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

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

— Anne Rice

335. “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

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

— Anne Rice

337. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

340. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

343. “God kills, and so shall we...”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

345. “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

346. “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

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

— Anne Rice

348. “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

349. “In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.”

— Anne Rice

350. “It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.”

— Anne Rice