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Anne Rice Quotes | Quotes said by Anne Rice

  • Anne Rice Quote #1

    ... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a new and disturbing style in which the colors seemed to blaze with such intensity they destroyed the old lines, the old solidity, to make a vision like those states which I'm nearest my delirium and flowers grow before my eyes and crackle like the flames of lamps.

  • Anne Rice Quote #2

    ...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness. Yet the name Paris makes me feel it.

  • Anne Rice Quote #3

    ...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.

  • Anne Rice Quote #4

    [...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?
    Oh, yes, it's there, she said. It's there because we put it there.

  • Anne Rice Quote #5

    ….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

  • Anne Rice Quote #6

    A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windows the deep bass of the radio, and the nasty words of a hateful song.It seemed like so much of modern music, a din to drive human beings mad.

  • Anne Rice Quote #7

    A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

  • Anne Rice Quote #8

    A real devil among devils.

  • Anne Rice Quote #9

    A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, he said, but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

  • Anne Rice Quote #10

    A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.

  • Anne Rice Quote #11

    Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

  • Anne Rice Quote #12

    After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.

  • Anne Rice Quote #13

    Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We all understood it in ancient times. The power of charms is the power of the will; you might say that we were all geniuses of psychology in those dark days, that we could be slain by the power of another's designs. And the dreams, Marius, the dreams are but a part of the great design.

  • Anne Rice Quote #14

    Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers

  • Anne Rice Quote #15

    Akasha, for two thousand years I have watched,' he said. 'Call me the Roman in the Arena if you will and tell me tales of the ages that went before. When I knelt at your feet I begged you for your knowledge. But what I have witnessed in this short span has filled me with awe and love for all things mortal; I have seen revolutions in thought and philosophy which I believed impossible. Is not the human race moving towards the very age of peace you describe?'
    Her face was a picture of disdain.
    'Marius,' she said, 'this will go down as one of the bloodiest centuries in the history of the human race. What revolutions do you speak of, when millions have been exterminated by one small European nation on the whim of a madman, when entire cities were melted into oblivion by bombs? When children in desert countries of the East war on other children in the name of an ancient and despotic God? Marius, women the world over wash the fruits of their wombs down public drains. The screams of the hungry are deafening, yet unheard by the rich who cavort in technological citadels; disease runs rampant among the starving of whole continents while the sick in palatial hospitals spend the wealth of the world on cosmetics refinements and the promise of eternal life through pills and vials. She laughed softly. 'Did ever the cries of the dying ring so thickly in the ears of those of us who can hear them? Has ever more blood been shed?

  • Anne Rice Quote #16

    Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

  • Anne Rice Quote #17

    All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.

  • Anne Rice Quote #18

    All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.

    And now, in this darkness, I fear nothing. If you were to leave me here, I would feel nothing. I would walk as I am walking now. As a man, you can't know what I mean by what I say.You can't know a woman's vulnerability. You can't know the sense of power that belongs to me now.

  • Anne Rice Quote #19

    All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

  • Anne Rice Quote #20

    Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

  • Anne Rice Quote #21

    And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

  • Anne Rice Quote #22

    And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

  • Anne Rice Quote #23

    And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

  • Anne Rice Quote #24

    And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had to learn it, and she'd make the most beautiful thing, fussing at herself for the least little mistake, then throw down the needles and be done with that forevermore. I never saw a child so changeable. It was as though she was looking for something to which she could give herself, and she never found it. Least ways not while she was a little girl.

  • Anne Rice Quote #25

    And so we remain immortal; we remain frightened; we remain anchored to what we can control. It all starts again; the wheel turns; we are the vampires; because there are no others; the new coven is formed.

  • Anne Rice Quote #26

    And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.

  • Anne Rice Quote #27

    And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any natural explanation offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.

  • Anne Rice Quote #28

    And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.

    I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness.

  • Anne Rice Quote #29

    And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there is not one single aspect of life, past, present, or future, that does not tear your reason from you, to think on it. So think about the pain. This pain after all has its limits. You can chart its passage through your body. It has a beginning, middle, end. Imagine if it had a color. The first cut of the lash is what, red? Red, spreading into a brilliant yellow. And this one again, red, red, no yellow, and then white, white, white, white. . .Why have you incarcerated yourself in this palazzo of torture chambers, why do you not leave this place? Because you are a monster and this is a school for monsters, and if you leave here, then you will be completely, completely alone! Alone with this!

    Don't weep in front of these strangers. Swallow it down. Don't weep in front of these strangers! Cry to heaven, cry to heaven, cry to heaven.

  • Anne Rice Quote #30

    And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

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