Top 425 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Rice - Page 2

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

The human heart is my school.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Evil is just a point of view

In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

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

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. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

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.

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

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

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.

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

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.

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

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.

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

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

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

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

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

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

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

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.

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

I love the one who punishes me well.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

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?

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

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

Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

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

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

Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.

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

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

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

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

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

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

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

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.