Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story... it has no frog.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

403. “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

404. “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

405. “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

406. “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

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

— Anne Rice

408. “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

409. “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

410. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

414. “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.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

416. “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

417. “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.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

419. “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

420. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

424. “Yes, something about the fabric of life ripping for a moment so you glimpsed things you shouldn’t have seen.”

— Anne Rice

425. “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

426. “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

427. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

430. “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

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

— Anne Rice

432. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

436. “Get thee behind me, tragedy.”

— Anne Rice

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. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

443. “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

444. “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

445. “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?”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

447. “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

448. “I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?”

— Anne Rice

449. “Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.”

— Anne Rice

450. “My body is no schoolboy.”

— Anne Rice