Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Was it fair to say I didn’t know the full state of my soul?”

— Anne Rice

352. “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

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

— 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. “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

356. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

363. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

369. “Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

374. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

377. “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

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

— Anne Rice

379. “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

380. “I understand the very definition of “hate” when I think of you.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

382. “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

383. “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

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384. “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

385. “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

386. “Finally those you love are simply... those you love.”

— Anne Rice

387. “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

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

— Anne Rice

389. “And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist – why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.”

— Anne Rice

390. “I watched them with the eyes of a hungry ghost.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

392. “I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.”

— Anne Rice

393. “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

394. “You think I live in the past. You don’t understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can.”

— Anne Rice

395. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

398. “Deep in my mind a thought did flash for a moment that one who commands must of necessity be wildly imperfect, boldly pragmatic, capable of compromises impossible for the truly wise and the truly good.”

— Anne Rice

399. “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

400. “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