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Anne Rice Quotes

Total quotes: 49
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
— Anne Rice, A quote by Anne Rice
Tagged: Encouragement, Honesty, Be yourself
“Lestat: No one could resist me, not even you, Louis.

Louis: I tried.

Louis: Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires.

Claudia: How avant-garde.”
— Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview With The Vampire
Tagged: Vampires, humans, Avant-Garde
“Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: Religion, God, Evil, Good, Vampire, Horror Stories, creepy
“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, Blackwood Farm
Tagged: Books, Reading, Hope
“I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.”
— Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
Tagged: Teacher, student, Learning
“Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: Evil, Sin, Mistakes
“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment.”
— Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil
Tagged: Misery, Happiness, Consolation
“I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.”
— Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
Tagged: minds, World, Conception
“You have to suffer through this emptiness... and find what impels you to continue.”
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Tagged: Empty, Suffering, Meaning
“I dream of miracles but I cannot imagine them. I pray for mercy, yet I cannot envision how it would come about.”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Dreams, Miracles, Praying
“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: strength, Lonely, Outsider
“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.”
— Anne Rice, Servant of the Bones
Tagged: purpose, Meaning, Lif
“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Memories, Curse, Gift
“Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.”
— Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil
Tagged: beauty, Language, Words
“You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.”
— Anne Rice, Blood Canticle
Tagged: Misery, Love, Unhappy
“Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I had revealed to him?”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Love, Souls, Loving
“Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on.”
— Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
Tagged: Attitude, strength, dignity
“That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can’t bear to be this happy without the other person with you.”
— Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
Tagged: Love, Together, Loving
“Whatever you’ve suffered, no matter how bad it’s been, you can use that, use that to be a stronger person.”
— Anne Rice, Prince Lestat
Tagged: Suffering, strength, Growth
“Maybe that's what hell is. You go mad and all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.”
— Anne Rice, Sweet Madness
Tagged: Horror, Hell, Fast
“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”
— Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief
Tagged: Flames, Fire, Chain Reaction
“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions.”
— Anne Rice, The Mummy
Tagged: Heaven, library, Reading, Books
“I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.”
— Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift
Tagged: Hope, Meaning, Life
“Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams and from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Stories, Dreams, Books
“We are blessed to be tiny beings in this universe. We are blessed to feel momentous because we are larger than these grains of sand.”
— Anne Rice, Prince Lestat
Tagged: Blessed, Life, Universe
“You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise - there is no hope.”
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Tagged: Hope, Failure, Success
“ [smiling] And the more you tried, the more I wanted you.”
— Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview With The Vampire
Tagged: Desire, Effort
“Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had.”
— Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview With The Vampire
Tagged: Fear
“Who will take care of me, my love, my dark angel, when you are gone?”
— Claudia, Interview With The Vampire
Tagged: Love, dark angel, Caretaking
“Pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.”
— Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift
Tagged: Pride, minds, Hearts, Souls
“The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.”
— Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift
Tagged: Evil, Mistakes, sins
“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: strength, Lonely, Outsider
“Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Tagged: Women, Girls, Independent
“Every moment must be first known and then savored.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: Time, Moments, Appreciation
“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.”
— Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil
Tagged: Crying, Tears, upset
“The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Love, Lies, Relationships
“God, why didn't you make us all dogs?”
— Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil
Tagged: Dogs, Animals, God
“Collect yourself, whatever you are, into something with a purpose.”
— Anne Rice, Prince Lestat
Tagged: purpose, Meaning, Dreams
“There is no normal life. There is only life.”
— Anne Rice, The Wolves of Midwinter
Tagged: Life, normalcy, normal
“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: Evil, Goodness, possibilities
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