Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.”

— Anne Rice

352. “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

353. “For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.”

— Anne Rice

354. “Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!”

— Anne Rice

355. “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

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

— Anne Rice

357. “She found herself staring at a tintype, a late-nineteenth-century photograph.”

— Anne Rice

358. “Nothing vanishes quite like pain – when pain does vanish, that is. Because most of the time pain never does.”

— Anne Rice

359. “I don’t understand,” said Fareed, “a world in which the most outspoken and high-profile blood drinkers are all romantics, poets, who bring into the Blood only those whom they love for emotional reasons. Oh, I do so appreciate your writing, you understand, every word of it. Your books are scripture for the Undead. Seth gave them to me at once, told me to learn them. But have you never thought to bring over those whom you actually need?”

— Anne Rice

360. “I dream the dreams of the young,’ he said. ‘And they are always dreams of being older, and richer, and wiser, and stronger, don’t you think?”

— Anne Rice

361. “The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.”

— Anne Rice

362. “True evil in this world is done by those with no imagination.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

364. “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

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

— Anne Rice

366. “Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.”

— Anne Rice

367. “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

368. “And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.”

— Anne Rice

369. “When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it’s one of the greatest gifts we possess.”

— Anne Rice

370. “An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.”

— Anne Rice

371. “First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.”

— Anne Rice

372. “It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.”

— Anne Rice

373. “Blood Genesis In the beginning were the spirits. They were invisible beings, heard and seen only by the most powerful sorcerers or witches.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

375. “I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one’s fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.”

— Anne Rice

376. “I’m usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.”

— Anne Rice

377. “I had a great and unshakable love of her. I don’t think anyone else did. And one thing that endeared her to me always was that she never said anything ordinary.”

— Anne Rice

378. “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

379. “People write to me all the time to tell me that “homosexuality is an abomination.” They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.”

— Anne Rice

380. “I wrestled as well with my passion for life, my lust for pleasure, for music, and beauty, and comfort and sensuality, and the inexplicable joys of art – and the baffling majesty of loving another so much that all the world, it seemed, depended on that love.”

— Anne Rice

381. “Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.”

— Anne Rice

382. “The idea was simply that there was somebody who knew everything, somebody who had seen everything. I did not mean by this that a Supreme Being existed, but rather that there was on earth a continual intelligence, a continual awareness. And I thought of it in practical terms that excited me and soothed me simultaneously.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

384. “We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!”

— Anne Rice

385. “And it is a great fact of history that the most mediocre and well-meaning imbeciles can strike down the mighty with surprising effectiveness when there is such a huge disparity of souls.”

— Anne Rice

386. “Life is a gift. Immortality is a precious gift.”

— Anne Rice

387. “I am your queen,” the woman answered.”

— Anne Rice

388. “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

389. “Finally I closed my eyes and opened them again, and I smiled very gently at the creature.”

— Anne Rice

390. “Actually, he had always found talk of hell highly offensive. He’d always sensed that those who did believe in hell had little or no empathy for those they assumed to be suffering there. Indeed, quite the opposite. Hellfire believers seem to delight in the idea that most of the human race would end up in just such a horrible place.”

— Anne Rice

391. “My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.”

— Anne Rice

392. “Be wanderers through time, I said. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals.”

— Anne Rice

393. “I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We’re the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.”

— Anne Rice

394. “In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story... it has no frog.”

— Anne Rice

395. “I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.”

— Anne Rice

396. “I’ve thought it from time to time myself. Stupidly simple. There has to be something to all this. There has to be! So many missing pieces. The more you consider it, the more atheists begin to sound like religious fanatics. But I think it’s a delusion. It is all process and nothing more.”

— Anne Rice

397. “Five nights ago the Voice had said, “You of all understand me. You of all understand power, the desire for power, what is at the heart of the desire for power.” “Which is what?” Rhosh had asked the Voice. “Simple,” the Voice had replied. “Those who desire power want to be immune to the power of others.”

— Anne Rice

398. “A dread came over him. Everything around him was gray. Nothing tasted good or looked good. It was as if a metallic gloom had gripped his world, and all colors and sensations had paled in it.”

— Anne Rice

399. “And pain was pain, whether physical or mental. Not the wisest of men or women or Taltos would ever know which was worse – the pain of the heart or the pain of the flesh.”

— Anne Rice

400. “Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.”

— Anne Rice