Anne Rice Quotes

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

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.

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.

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

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

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.-Marius

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?

I love the one who punishes me well.

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.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

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

Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt

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.

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.

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

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

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

….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?

It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.