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

402. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

407. “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

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

— Anne Rice

409. “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.”

— Anne Rice

410. “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

411. “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

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

— Anne Rice

413. “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

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

— Anne Rice

415. “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

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

— Anne Rice

417. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

422. “Get thee behind me, tragedy.”

— Anne Rice

423. “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

424. “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

425. “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

426. “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

427. “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

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

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

— Anne Rice

431. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

436. “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

437. “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

438. “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

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

— Anne Rice

440. “Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands.”

— Anne Rice

441. “Never make a blood drinker of a greater age, said Eudoxia. For a greater mortal age can only lead to misery later on from habits learned in mortal life.”

— Anne Rice

442. “It’s Stella. Stella’s got the gift and she’ll get everything when I die.’ ‘And what’s the gift, Miss Mary Beth?’ my mother asked her. ‘Why, Stella’s seen the man,’ Miss Mary Beth said to my mother. ‘And the one who can see the man when she’s all alone inherits all.”

— Anne Rice

443. “In perfect understanding, it seemed, they looked at each other. Questions of failure, of haste, all the what if’s of life, did not matter. The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him.”

— Anne Rice

444. “He took another quick swallow of the coffee. Tasted awful to him, though it was good coffee, he’d brewed it himself. A beer was what he wanted. Not to have a beer right now was like not breathing. But it was just too great a risk.”

— Anne Rice

445. “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

446. “Who could trust language?”

— Anne Rice

447. “You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don’t know each other very well.”

— Anne Rice

448. “You haven’t found all the answers yet. Electricity, telephones, these are lovely magic. But the poor go unfed. Men kill for what they cannot gain by their own labour. How to share the magic, the riches, the secrets, that is still the problem.”

— Anne Rice

449. “Those who desire power want to.”

— Anne Rice

450. “I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.”

— Anne Rice