Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.”

— Anne Rice

352. “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

353. “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

354. “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

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

— Anne Rice

356. “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

357. “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

358. “I read her thoughts and I found the poetry inside of her, beneath the misfortune of warts and pockmarked skin, of hunched shoulders and deformed limbs. I loved her. Indeed she became, whole and entire, quite beautiful to me –. And she came to love me with her whole heart.”

— Anne Rice

359. “Was it fair to say I didn’t know the full state of my soul?”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

361. “I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

364. “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

365. “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

366. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

378. “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

379. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

383. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

387. “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

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

— Anne Rice

389. “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

390. “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

391. “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

392. “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

393. “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

394. “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

395. “Rhosh, remember the being’s skin, smooth, dark brown skin, like this one’s skin, and the being’s hair. The hair was the same, thick like this and with loose curls and the very same golden streak in it, only broader and on the right side of the head.”

— Anne Rice

396. “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

397. “It is tragic that many in America think of us – Christians – as being people who hate others.”

— Anne Rice

398. “I can’t get very far away from Christianity, I can’t get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.”

— Anne Rice

399. “Will you live an empty and bitter life, a selfish and profane life, because something precious was denied you? Will you waste every chance for honor and happiness given you in this world simply because you have been thwarted?”

— Anne Rice

400. “Some things one doesn’t want to remember.”

— Anne Rice