1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men’s treasures are not yours.

Do you think that angels are detached?” asked.

He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it’s occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We’re the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

Be Warned: I sleep as the earth sleeps beneath the night sky or the winter’s snow; and once awakened, I am servant to no man.

You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same encounter with language. There is a heightened sensitivity in you, to be sure, but you can embrace it. It’s far more than just a nervous condition, these tears you shed when you read of Cleopatra and Marc Antony’s fall. You are a rare and beautiful thing, Sibyl. For most people, words are just symbols for sounds, made on paper. For you, they can create all new worlds in your mind.

Maybe that’s what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

Everything is coming to an end, I thought. But what does that mean? Why do I say things to myself when I don’t even know what they mean?