Anne Rice Quotes

Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.

~ Anne Rice

I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.

~ Anne Rice

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

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

~ Anne Rice

Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.

~ Anne Rice

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.

~ Anne Rice

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

~ Anne Rice

Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.

~ Anne Rice

Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain, suffering, or confusion. All evil comes from this. This is the root of all evil.

~ Anne Rice

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

~ Anne Rice

God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.

~ Anne Rice

Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

~ Anne Rice

Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off every minute of human life. Andwhat constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after oreventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have.

~ Anne Rice

I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me! -Claudia.

~ Anne Rice

The horror was this: the others.

~ Anne Rice

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

~ Anne Rice

Who could trust language?

~ Anne Rice

Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

~ Anne Rice

We live forever, but they don't come back.

~ Anne Rice

...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

Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them.

~ Anne Rice

And do stop trying to determine if I am a man or a woman. The fact is I'm a good part both and therefore neither one. I was just explaining to your Aunt Queen. I was born endowed with the finest traits of both sexes and I drift this way and that as I choose.

~ Anne Rice

What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not.

~ Anne Rice

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

~ Anne Rice

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

~ Anne Rice

And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.

~ Anne Rice

But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

~ Anne Rice

I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice.

~ Anne Rice

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

~ Anne Rice

I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.

~ Anne Rice

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

Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.

~ Anne Rice

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

~ Anne Rice

Maybe we do go home, finally.

~ Anne Rice

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

~ Anne Rice

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?''No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

~ Anne Rice

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

~ Anne Rice

Everyone today has a story, the world’s an archive.

~ Anne Rice

You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

~ Anne Rice

You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

~ Anne Rice