Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

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

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

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

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

— Anne Rice

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

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

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358. “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

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

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360. “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.”

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

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362. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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368. “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

369. “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?”

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

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371. “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

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

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

— Anne Rice

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

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

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

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

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378. “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.”

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379. “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

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

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

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

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

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384. “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.”

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385. “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.”

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386. “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.”

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387. “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.”

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388. “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

389. “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.”

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390. “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.”

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391. “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

392. “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

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

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

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395. “What makes you think anyone has a destiny? We do what we do and we die.”

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396. “But joy, the joy you’ve known, the love you’ve known, that is what matters, and we, the conscious ones, the ones who can grieve, only we can know joy.”

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397. “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.”

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398. “It will be under the name David Talbot.” “My clothes. There’s a stash of them here under the name Isaac Rummel. Just a suitcase or two, and some coats. It’s really winter, isn’t it?” I gave him the key to the room. This was humiliating. Rather like making a servant of him. Perhaps he’d change his mind and put our new lodgings under the name of Renfield.”

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399. “I’m fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.”

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400. “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