“Spiderwebs broken and torn in a wind that is indifferent to their beauty.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Why do we weep when we see something beautiful? Why are we weakened by beauty? Why does it break our hearts?” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“That’s the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You're the mad one,' I said. 'If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music - which of course you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music. . you wouldn't see darkness. . you'd see an illumination that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Almost none of these very strong and patient souls sought the flesh again. But some of them had in the past. They… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Well, surely you know. Didn’t you rebel? Don’t you? Why, Leon said of you there is a core in you which no… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There had never been any talent, any talent to draw or paint or to make music or to write or to make any of… — anne rice Copy Share
“there are only two things which I believe—the first is that no mortal can refuse the Dark Gift once he really knows what it… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can… — Anne Rice Copy Share
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If… — Anne Rice Copy Share
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Look up at heaven and hell in the sky, for the stars are balls of fire suspended there by the angels.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my… — Anne Rice Copy Share
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that… — Anne Rice Copy Share
