Quotes of Anne Rice - somelinesforyou

“ The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. ”

- Anne Rice

“ To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself. ”

- Anne Rice

“ I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. ”

- Anne Rice

“ It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. ”

- Anne Rice

“ The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us. ”

- Anne Rice

“ I was good and bad, but never wicked. ”

- Anne Rice

“ 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

“ People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. ”

- Anne Rice

“ How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so. ”

- Anne Rice

“ I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. ”

- Anne Rice

“ Não importava que Deus no céu fosse católico, protestante ou hindu. O que importava era uma coisa mais profunda, mais antiga e mais forte do que qualquer imagem dessas: um conceito do bem baseado na afirmação da vida, na repulsa à destruição, à perversidade, ao uso e abuso do homem pelo homem. Era a afirmação do humano e do natural. ”

- Anne Rice

“ Don't be a fool for the devil, darling! Unless he treats you a damn sight better than the Almighty! ”

- Anne Rice

“ Then no sin matters,' he said. 'No sin achieves evil.' 'That's not true. Because if God doesn't exist we are the creatures of highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand the passage of time and the value of every minute of human life. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or eventually...it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life...every second of it...is all we have. ”

- Anne Rice

“ I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. ”

- Anne Rice

“ 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

“ How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so. ”

- Anne Rice

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

- Anne Rice

“ Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. ”

- Anne Rice

“ Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt ”

- Anne Rice

“ The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her. ”

- Anne Rice

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

- Anne Rice

“ 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

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

- Anne Rice

“ How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so. ”

- Anne Rice

“ 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

“ Firstperson narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. ”

- Anne Rice

“ Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is. ”

- Anne Rice

“ People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. ”

- Anne Rice

“ The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. ”

- Anne Rice

“ Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods. ”

- Anne Rice
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