Anne Rice Quotes

If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.

The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing, ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.

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.

But there is no value to suffering!

You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The horror was this: the others.

Who could trust language?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Maybe we do go home, finally.

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

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

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.

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.

We are the things that others fear, " I said. "Remember that.

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

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

In his refusal to believe in anything supernatural or inherently evil, he was as unrealistic as an old voodoo queen who sees spirits everywhere.

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?

I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.

It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the sea and some great secert was to be revealed.

It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed.

Your body's dying...pay no attention

You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

I’d like to meet the devil some night, ’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.

There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female.

Lasher, ’ she said, ‘for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees.

No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.