Interview with the Vampire Quotes

“One evening a vampire rises and realizes what he has feared perhaps for decades, that he simply wants no more of life at any cost. That whatever style or fashion or shape of existence made immortality attractive to him has been swept off the face of the earth. And nothing remains to offer freedom from despair except the act of killing. And that vampire goes out to die. No one will find his remains. No one will know where he has gone. And often no one around him – should he still seek the company of other vampires – no one will know that he is in despair. He will have ceased long ago to speak of himself or of anything. He will vanish.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Because if God does not exist, this life … every second of it … is all we have.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“What would Christ need have done to make me follow Him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Surely you attribute great degrees and variations to goodness. There is the goodness of the child which is innocence, and then there is the goodness of the monk who has given up everything to others and lives a life of self-deprivation and service. The goodness of saints, the goodness of good housewives. Are all these the same?”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“I wanted darkness. To hide from her and the feelings that welled up in me, and the great consuming fear that I was utterly inadequate to make her happy, or to make myself happy by pleasing her.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Yes," I said softly to him, 'that is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we knows each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“And I’ve more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he wasn't opposed to anything which smacked of style and excess.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Use the power inside you. Don't abhor it anymore. Use that power! And when they see you in the streets above, use that power to make your face a mask and think as you gaze on them as on anyone: beware.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Hell is hatred.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Evil is a point of view. God kills, indiscriminately, and so shall we. He takes the richest and the poorest, as so shall we, for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“A great fleecy cloud had released the moon, and high above us loomed the dark outline of the tower. One long window showed the pale sky beyond it.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“She was no longer shaken. If she remembered her screams in the fire she did not care to dwell on them. If she remembered that, before the fire, she had wept real tears in my arms, it made no change in her; she was, as always in the past, a person of little indecision, a person for who habitual quiet did not mean anxiety of regret.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their intangibility promised to us wrongly... wrongly, an immortality. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us. When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored.”
― Anne Rice, 夜访吸血鬼

“My mind said, Sleep. But more profoundly, my mind said, Dream.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Evil is a point of view.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Then no sin matters,' he said. 'No sin achieves evil.'

'That's not true. Because if God doesn't exist we are the creatures of highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand the passage of time and the value of every minute of human life. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or eventually...it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life...every second of it...is all we have.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Just as sure as this flesh is pink, it will turn gray, wrinkled with age,”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“God kills, and so shall we...”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“But if evil is without gradation, and it does exist, this state of evil, then only one sin is needed. Isn’t that what you are saying? That God exists and.…’ “ ‘I don’t know if God exists,’ I said. ‘And for all I do know … He doesn’t exist.’ “ ‘Then no sin matters,’ he said. ‘No sin achieves evil.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan’s power comes from God and that Satan is simply God’s child, and that we are God’s children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“with no tribute whatsoever to the human habit of disguising the stare.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“An artist, stealing paints from a store, for example, imagines himself to have made an inevitable but immoral decision, and then he sees himself as fallen from grace; what follows is despair and petty irresponsibility, as if morality were a great glass world which can be utterly shattered by one act.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“But Paris, Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets—as vast and indestructible as nature itself.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Doll, doll,' I called her. That's what she was. A magic doll. Laughter and infinite intellect and then the round-cheeked face, the bud mouth.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Because if God doesn't exist we are the creatures
of highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand the
passage of time and the value off every minute of human life. And
what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or
eventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“La gente que cesa de creer en dios o en la bondad todavía suele creer en el demonio. No sé por qué. O sí lo sé: la maldad es siempre posible, la bondad es una dificultad eterna.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Mis recuerdos son demasiado claros, demasiado agudos; las cosas debieran gastarse en los bordes y lo irresoluto debería suavizarse. De ese modo, hay escenas tan cerca de mi corazón como fotos en un marco; sin embargo, son retratos monstruosos que ningún artista ni ninguna cámara jamás lograrán.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Žmonės, nustoję tikėti Dievu ir gėriu, ima tikėti šėtonu. Nežinau, kodėl. Ne, išties žinau, kodėl. Blogis visur įmanomas. O su gėriu situacija amžinai kebli.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire