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50 Anne Rice Quotes About The Beauty Of Being Alive

Whatever you’ve suffered, no matter how bad it’s been, you can use that, use that to be a stronger person.
Holly Riordan
March 21, 2017
“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: Evil, Goodness, possibilities
“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: strength, Lonely, Outsider
“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Tagged: Change, Personality, Growth
“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.”
— Anne Rice, Servant of the Bones
Tagged: purpose, Meaning, Lif
“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: strength, Lonely, Outsider
“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.”
— Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm
Tagged: Books, Reading, Hope
“Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Tagged: Women, Girls, Independent
“Every moment must be first known and then savored.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: Time, Moments, Appreciation
“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Memories, Curse, Gift
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: Death, coward, Courage
“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.”
— Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil
Tagged: Crying, Tears, upset
“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”
— Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief
Tagged: Flames, Fire, Chain Reaction
“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.”
— Anne Rice, The Feast of All Saints
Tagged: Evil, Good, Decisions
“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.”
— Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift
Tagged: Truth, risks, Lies
“The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Love, Lies, Relationships
“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.”
— Anne Rice, The Mummy
Tagged: Heaven, library, Reading, Books
“Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.”
— Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil
Tagged: beauty, Language, Words
“You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.”
— Anne Rice, Blood Canticle
Tagged: Misery, Love, Unhappy
“I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.”
— Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift
Tagged: Hope, Meaning, Life
“Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Sleeping, Friends, Dreams
“Anger is as weak as fear.”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Anger, Fear, Weakness
“I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.”
— Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
Tagged: Teacher, student, Learning
“God, why didn't you make us all dogs?”
— Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil
Tagged: Dogs, Animals, God
“Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: Evil, Sin, Mistakes
“Pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.”
— Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift
Tagged: Pride, minds, Hearts, Souls
“I would have done just about anything for him.”
— Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
Tagged: Love, affection, Loving
“Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I had revealed to him?”
— Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
Tagged: Love, Souls, Loving
“You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow.”
— Anne Rice, Prince Lestat
Tagged: strength, Rain, Sorrow
“And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.”
— Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
Tagged: Changes, Flowers, Be yourself
“Collect yourself, whatever you are, into something with a purpose.”
— Anne Rice, Prince Lestat
Tagged: purpose, Meaning, Dreams