Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis Quotes

“To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain, suffering, or confusion. All evil comes from this. This is the root of all evil.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“After all, it is a lot of trouble to hate people, isn’t it? And a lot of trouble to be angry, and a lot of trouble to bother with such abstract notions as guilt or revenge.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“I've always been proud of you, except when you retreat, and give in to your suffering. I haven't been so proud when you do that. But you always come back. No matter how dreadful the defeat, you come back.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“Love is the only defense we ever have against the cold meaninglessness around us.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“Maybe those who rose into the Light simply died, and the universe beyond this world was silent.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“my motto, what it’s always been. I refuse to be bad at what I do, and that includes being bad. I won’t be bad at being bad. I”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“I knew I had been made to lead the party and that I was colder in temperament than the others, but I was not only deeply disturbed, I had lost respect for and trust in the Parents in some vital way. I did not entirely believe them when they said they would consider changing their plan. Their utter indifference to our personal fate was obvious. And not believing some of what they said, I came to question everything they said. I wanted really only one thing and that was to get away from them.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“There is only value,” said Derek, “to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“If we wanted to survive, if we wanted to inherit the millennia as Thorne and Cyril, and Teskhamen and Chrysanthe had inherited them, as Avicus and Zenobia had inherited them, as Marius and Pandora and Flavius had inherited them, and as Rhoshamandes and Sevraine had inherited them—and as Seth and Gregory, now the very oldest among us, had inherited them—then we had to meet the future with respect as well as courage and count fear and selfishness to be small things.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“He says things like the orchestra is generating a soul, a collective soul, an entity. I ask him what that means. He says consciousness generates soul.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“But there is no value to suffering! There is only value, said Derek, to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“But what creature in the world doesn't want to be loved for itself?”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“Something happens to your senses when you look on Louis. Behold Louis...”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“But there is no value to suffering!”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“Your soul is your inner being, your thinking, reasoning, loving, choosing inner being. Your capacity to stand up for what is right. Your capacity to fight against what is wrong. Your capacity to choose even to die for what you believe is right. That's your soul.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“Who said you had to be human to have a soul? Everything that is self-conscious and capable of thought and love has a soul. The soul emanates from self-conscious. The soul is the expression of self-consciousness. The soul is generated by organized self-consciousness.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“Rhosh, remember the being’s skin, smooth, dark brown skin, like this one’s skin, and the being’s hair. The hair was the same, thick like this and with loose curls and the very same golden streak in it, only broader and on the right side of the head.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“Everything that is conscious, aware of itself, has a soul.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“Nothing vanishes quite like pain—when pain does vanish, that is. Because most of the time pain never does.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“All around us were happy people excited to be going to Atalantaya, many for the first time, and the officials in charge seemed excited for us as well. It was rather like being in a group today that is visiting the cities of Jerusalem or Rome for the first time.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“You will not feel anything. When you detonate the explosion, you will cease to be. That's all. There is no life beyond biological life. There is no life beyond visible life.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“I could drive myself mad contemplating a great nothingness filled with a billion pinpoints of light and millions of drifting planets generating their myriad biological I=kingdom of insect, animal, sentient witness.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“LOVE ALL, TRUST A FEW, DO WRONG TO NONE.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“What are we that we can make such great blunders without the slightest realization of what we are doing? What is man that he is so mindful of himself and knows so little of the consequences of what he does!”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“what endures is what has always mattered: love—that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good—that hope will be realized through love.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

“That is one of the worst aspects of evil, that it always involves the death of possible good, always proceeds from the destruction of something that might have been so much better.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis