Pandora Quotes

“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“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, Pandora

“The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires

“Don’t cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger."

"No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!"

"Permission denied.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history - is lies.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“The disparity between outward appearances and inner disposition had disturbed me all my life.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“The typical conservative Roman was far too practical for that. If you didn’t know by age five that the gods were made-up creatures and the myths invented stories, then you were a fool.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“You can sow the seeds of distrust everywhere, and lose yourself in an overgrown field.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“I can walk through a myth and out of it!”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“The true crafty evil person is rare. It’s bumbling that causes most of the misery of the world, utter stupid bumbling.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“At times I felt a huge exhilaration, a freedom from all falsehoods and conventions, all means by which a soul or body can be held hostage!”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“Apparently each century yields a new kind of vampire, or let us say that our course of growth was not set in the beginning any more than the course of human beings.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is the thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“The were only fleeting recollections of that [...] night of rising into the stars, of seeing the scope of life in its cycles, of accepting perfectly just for a little while that the moon would always be changing, and the sun would set as it always rose.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“To be weak is a dangerous thing.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“I knew all things were symbols of other things! I knew that all rituals were enactments of other happenings! I know out of our practical human minds we devised these things with an immensity of soul that would not allow the world to be devoid of meaning. And this statue represented love. Love above injustice. Love above loneliness and condemnation. That was what mattered, that single thing.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is a thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“You know what it takes to teach philosophy here? You have to lie. You have to fling meaningless words as fast as you can at young people, and brood when you can't answer, and make up nonsense and ascribe it to the old Stoics.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“But reason was only a created thing, imposed with faith upon the world, and the stars promise nothing to no one.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“A real revelation came upon me. I cannot fully record it. I knew it, fully, in an instant. I knew that all things were symbols of other things! I knew that all rituals were enactments of other happenings! I knew that out of our practical human minds we devised these things with an immensity of soul that would not allow the world to be devoid of meaning.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“Why did I have to cut you so deeply to find your soul? Why can't we simply reveal ourselves to one another?”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“Do you see cruelty in my eyes? Can't you believe that it is perhaps the tempered soul that survives grief? One need not fight on a battlefield to have courage.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora