Anne Rice Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Men, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.353, Ballantine Books

• It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

  Anne Rice

  Giving, Suffering, Our Words

• It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

  Anne Rice

  Simple, Giving, Optimism

  Anne Rice (1983). “The Queen of the Damned”, Ballantine Books

• We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Giving, Predator

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

• Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

  Anne Rice

  Attitude, Games, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.945, Ballantine Books

• What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Pain, Giving

• And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Grief, Fate

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.106, Ballantine Books

• I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

  Anne Rice

  Giving, Missing, Vampire

• Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

  Anne Rice

  Light, Giving, Vampire

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. November 11, 1994.

• But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

  Anne Rice

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1263, Ballantine Books

• We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

  Anne Rice

  Knowing, Giving, Mind

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.865, Ballantine Books

• He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

  Anne Rice

  Grieving, Light, Jewels

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2112, Ballantine Books

• Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

  Anne Rice

  Men, Names, Giving

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.835, Ballantine Books

• I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, Giving, I Believe

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.482, Ballantine Books

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