Anne Rice World Quotations

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

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

How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.

Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

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

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

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.

There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.

His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.

The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?

I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

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.

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.

I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.

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

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

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

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.