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

— Anne Rice

402. “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

403. “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

404. “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

405. “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

406. “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.”

— Anne Rice

407. “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

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

— Anne Rice

409. “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

410. “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

411. “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

412. “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

413. “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

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

— Anne Rice

415. “Get thee behind me, tragedy.”

— Anne Rice

416. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

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

— Anne Rice

421. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

428. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

431. “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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

434. “I’m ashamed, ashamed that I want you and that it sustains me to think, just to think, that because of all you’ve lost, you might love me.”

— Anne Rice

435. “And you have never given me your love.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

439. “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

440. “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

441. “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

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

— Anne Rice

443. “My body is no schoolboy.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

448. “Those who desire power want to.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

450. “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