1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul.

Love is the only defense we ever have against the cold meaninglessness around us.

He had not perished. That might be his only significant accomplishment. He had survived. Yes, he’d been defeated, more than once. But fortune had refused to release him. And he was here now, whole, and quietly accepting of the fact though he honestly did not know why.

Don’t make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.

But death we are, and death we’ve always been.

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.

I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.

Yes, something about the fabric of life ripping for a moment so you glimpsed things you shouldn’t have seen.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I’m not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.