1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

It is a terrible thing to realize that you depend so much upon another; that your entire sense of well-being is connected to that one – that you need him, love him, that he is the chief witness of your life.

I am in love with you’, I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. ‘Of course you are,’ he replied. ‘I understand perfectly because I’m in love with myself. The fact that I’m not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.’ It was my turn to laugh.

I don’t know how to be bad at being bad.

His beauty has always maddened me. I think I idealize him in my mind when I’m not with him; but then when I see him again I’m overcome.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He’s my teacher. He’s one of my driving forces.

Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this. And it seemed in a murmuring pulse of thought he gave me to know that I had been very foolish to think it would not be so. Who can love us, you and I, as we can love each other, he whispered and it seemed his lips actually moved.

I no longer represent any organized religion. I’m not Catholic. I’m not Christian. I’m saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

Because people don’t believe it unless it happens to them.

Why do we weep when we see something beautiful? Why are we weakened by beauty? Why does it break our hearts?