Anne Rice Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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. Memnoch the Devil

2. I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. The Vampire Lestat

3. I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. The Vampire Lestat

4. It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. Interview with the Vampire

5. Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies. The Wolf Gift

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

7. And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved. Blackwood Farm

8. And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge. Interview with the Vampire

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

10. Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a knew source."(...)"But you love books, then", Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen."Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they're the only thing that keeps me alive.""What a thing to say at your age", she laughed."No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope - that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved. Blackwood Farm

11. Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. The Vampire Lestat

12. We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge. Vittorio, The Vampire

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