Interview with the Vampire Quotes

“And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“But this effervescence was frenetic and likely to vanish in an instant;”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“You gave me your immortal kiss," she said, though not to me, but to herself. "You loved me with your vampire nature.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“We could not bear to live alone! We needed our little company! A wilderness of mortals surrounded us, groping, blind, preoccupied, and the brides and bridegrooms of death.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“I went through mortal life like a blind man groping from solid object to solid obhect. It was only when I became a vampire that I respected for the first time all of life. I never saw a living, pulsing human being until I was a vampire; I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands!”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“And you did get into the coffin?” “I had no choice. I begged Lestat to let me stay in the closet, but he laughed, astonished. ‘Don’t you know what you are?’ he asked.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,
Who thicks man’s blood with cold.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“But the name was astonishing: 'Théâtre des Vampires,' and the time noted, nine p.m.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“And I knew the step on the stairs. I knew the step on the porch. It was Lestat.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“¿No te das cuenta? Yo no soy el espíritu de mi época. Tengo problemas con todo y siempre los he tenido. ¡Nunca me he sentido a gusto en ninguna parte ni con nadie!”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Y vi mis dioses verdaderos... los dioses de la mayoría de los hombres: la comida, la bebida y la seguridad en el conformismo. Cenizas.”
― Anne Rice, Entrevista con el vampiro

“La gente que deja de creer en Dios, o en la bondad, sigue creyendo en el demonio. No sé por qué. No; sé muy bien por qué. El mal siempre es posible. Y la bondad es eternamente difícil.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands!”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“¿No te das cuenta? Yo no soy el espíritu de mi época. Tengo problemas con todo y siempre los he tenido. ¡Nunca me he sentido a gusto en ninguna parte ni con nadie!".”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“I wanted those waters to be blue. And they were not.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“life as it is only known on the very point of death.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“And finally she crowded the high French windows with a veritable garden of camellia and fern. 'I miss the flowers; more than anything else I miss the flowers,' she mused. And sought after them even in the paintings which we bought from the shops and the galleries, magnificent canvases such as I'd never seen in New Orleans―from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a new and disturbing style in which the colors seemed to blaze with such intensity they destroyed the old lines, the old solidity, to make a vision like to those states when I'm nearest my delirium and flowers grow before my eyes and crackle like the flames of lamps. Paris flowed into these rooms.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Stop looking at my buttons,' Lestat said. 'Go out there into the trees. Rid yourself of all the human waste in your body, and don't fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way!”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“He backed away from me, the brush falling from his hand. And I rose over him, feeling my teeth against my lip, feeling my eyes fill with the colors of his face, my ears fill with his struggling cry, my hands fill with that strong, fighting flesh until I drew him up to me, helpless, and tore that flesh and had the blood that gave it life. ‘Die,’ I whispered when I held him loose now, his head bowed against my coat, ‘die,’ and felt him struggle to look up at me.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“It was as if that distant bed were a stage and on the linen pillows of the little stage lay that boy, his black hair parted in the middle and curling about his ears, so that he looked now in his dream, fevered state like one of those lithe androgynous creatures of a Botticelli painting; and beside him, nestled against him, her tiny white hand stark against his flesh lay Claudia, her face buried in his neck.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Can you picture it?’ she said so softly I scarcely heard. ‘A coven of children? That is all I could provide…”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“The door to the secrets of Eastern Europe was shut against us.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“- (...) si Dios no existe, nosotros somos las criaturas de mayor conciencia del universo. Sólo nosotros comprendemos el paso del tiempo y el valor de cada minuto de vida humana. Y lo que constituye el mal, el verdadero mal, es el asesinato de una sola vida humana. No tiene la menor importancia que un hombre pueda morir mañana o pasado mañana o con el tiempo... Porque si Dios no existe, esta vida... cada segundo de la misma... es lo único que tenemos (p.268)”
― Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire

“- (...) si Dios no existe, nosotros somos las criaturas de mayor conciencia del universo. Sólo nosotros comprendemos el paso del tiempo y el valor de cada minuto de vida humana. Y lo que constituye el mal, el verdadero mal, es el asesinato de una sola vida humana. No tiene la menor importancia que un hombre pueda morir mañana o pasado mañana o con el tiempo... Porque si Dios no existe, esta vida... cada segundo de la misma... es lo único que tenemos.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“¿Qué tendría que haber hecho Cristo para que lo siguiera como Mateo o Pedro? Vestirse bien, para empezar. Y tener una cabeza lujuriosa de abundante cabello rubio.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“No hay nada en este mundo que no posea cierta fascinación.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Rosse eran le labbra, lo sguardo forte,
gialle come l'oro le chiome torte,
bianca la pelle qual lebbra fatale,
l'Incubo era lei, VITA-NELLA-MORTE,
che fredda addensa il sangue mortale.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Lascia che sia la carne a insegnare alla mente”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Lei non e' sempre stato un vampiro, vero?" attacco'.
"No" rispose l'altro. "Avevo venticinque anni quando lo divvenni: era il 1791".”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Il vampiro era perfettamente candido e levigato, come scolpito nell'avorio, e il suo viso appariva esanime come una statua, a eccezione di quegli occhi verdi, ardenti come fiamme in un teschio, che scrutavano intensamente il ragazzo. Ma poi il vampiro sorrise con un velo di malinconia e la liscia massa bianca del suo volto si mosse ridisegnandosi con i tratti infinitamente flessibili e essenziali di un cartone animato.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire