1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great quarrels and wars, and it wooed the power of temporal authorities, and made them part of itself in the hope of resolving through sheer force its many arguments.

And no small part of this unpredicted miracle was the curious innocence of these people in the very midst of their freedom and their wealth. The Christian god was as dead as he had been in the 1700s. And no new mythological religion had arisen to take the place of the old.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

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

Evil is a point of view.

Lord God, to be born with no talent is bad enough, but to have a macabre and febrile imagination as well is a curse.

If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.

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.