Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

405. “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

406. “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

407. “I mean it’s a concept born out of moral idiocy, this idea of love!”

— Anne Rice

408. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

411. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

415. “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

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

— Anne Rice

417. “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

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

— Anne Rice

419. “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

420. “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

421. “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

422. “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

423. “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

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

— Anne Rice

425. “Get thee behind me, tragedy.”

— Anne Rice

426. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

429. “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

430. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

437. “Those who desire power want to.”

— Anne Rice

438. “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

439. “We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.”

— Anne Rice

440. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

443. “Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a movement, like a drop in temperature. Silence. There.”

— Anne Rice

444. “Who could trust language?”

— Anne Rice

445. “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

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

— Anne Rice

447. “Son tu conciencia y tu voluntad las que deben mantenerte vivo.”

— Anne Rice

448. “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

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

— Anne Rice

450. “The one thing you share with every mortal is death.”

— Anne Rice