Anne Rice Quotes About Goodness

Quotes about: Goodness

• Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

  Anne Rice

  Reality, Evil, Literature

• I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God, or the God of the Hindus. What mattered was something deeper and older and more powerful than any such image - it was a concept of goodness based upon the affirmation of life, the turning away from destruction, from the perverse, from man using and abusing man. It was the affirmation of the human and the natural.

  Anne Rice

  Powerful, Men, Heaven

• I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.

  Anne Rice

  Hurt, Stars, Believe

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.861, Ballantine Books

• People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, People, Evil

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.28, Ballantine Books

• [...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?" "Oh, yes, it's there," she said. "It's there because we put it there.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, Important, Goodness

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.239, Ballantine Books

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