Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

402. “I see.” said the vampire thoughtfully.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

404. “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

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

— Anne Rice

406. “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

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

— Anne Rice

408. “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

409. “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.”

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410. “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

411. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

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414. “What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?”

— Anne Rice

415. “He could not even see the images which I was seeing, so broken was his heart.”

— Anne Rice

416. “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

417. “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

418. “If you don’t see something that you like to read, but cannot find it. Write it and make it exist.”

— Anne Rice

419. “Some of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy,” he said gently. “We’re good at it, and proud of it, and we get better and better at it, and we simply don’t know what it means to be happy.”

— Anne Rice

420. “You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.”

— Anne Rice

421. “Cities have distinct personalities. It’s a matter of knowing it.”

— Anne Rice

422. “No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.”

— Anne Rice

423. “Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.”

— Anne Rice

424. “The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.”

— Anne Rice

425. “I would have done just about anything for him.”

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426. “Of course, it’s about faith – faith that this is God’s world and we’re God’s children. How could it not be about faith? I think if one truly loves God with all one’s heart, then one has to love everybody else. It’s not a choice. And you don’t love them because it scores you points with God. You love them because you are trying to see them and embrace them as God sees and embraces them. You are loving them because they are alive.”

— Anne Rice

427. “Of course there is a way to stop the rampant spread of beauty. It has to do with regimentation, conformity, assemblyline aesthetics, and the triumph of the functional over the haphazard.”

— Anne Rice

428. “I know this kind of person. I’ve known them all my life. They get the sympathy of others with what passes for insecurity. But what really motivates them is a vanity so immense most of us can not conceive of it. Insecurity is simply a disguise.”

— Anne Rice

429. “And I had the most disconcerting sensation: that in my memory she would look up from that game of solitaire and the sockets of her eyes would be empty.”

— Anne Rice

430. “The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.”

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431. “Did all the answers lie beyond the open door? Is the future beyond the open door? For after all, why could this not become, in spite of everything, a mere chapter of her life, marked off and seldom reread, once she had returned to the outside world where she had been kept all these years, quite beyond the spells and enchantments that were now claiming her? Oh, but it wasn’t going to be. Because when you fell prey to a spell this strong, you were never the same.”

— Anne Rice

432. “I’m definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there’s no doubt about that.”

— Anne Rice

433. “I broke with my religion in college.”

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434. “Too many voices out there in the night.”

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435. “There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.”

— Anne Rice

436. “He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.”

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437. “We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty,” he insisted, “and every other key virtue we learned as humans.” He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.”

— Anne Rice

438. “After all, it is a lot of trouble to hate people, isn’t it? And a lot of trouble to be angry, and a lot of trouble to bother with such abstract notions as guilt or revenge.”

— Anne Rice

439. “Get thee behind me, tragedy.”

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440. “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”

— Anne Rice

441. “We have the future now,” she whispered. “Does it matter that we’ve wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past?”

— Anne Rice

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

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443. “And won’t the world be better if no one is ever again burnt in the name of God?” I asked. “If there is no more faith in God to make men do that to each other? What is the danger in a secular world where horrors like that don’t happen?”

— Anne Rice

444. “Why don’t people do what they really want to do, Reuben?” he asked. “Why do we so often settle for what makes us devoutly unhappy! Why do we accept that happiness just isn’t possible?”

— Anne Rice

445. “I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.”

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446. “I found her more alluring than any woman I’d known in mortal life.”

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447. “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

448. “There may be writing groups where people meet but it’s occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.”

— Anne Rice

449. “God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?”

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450. “The woman was forty-one years old, yet she looked both ancient and young – a stooped and pale child, untouched by adult worry or passion. Deirdre, did you ever have a lover? Did you ever dance in that parlor?”

— Anne Rice