Death Quotes by Anne Rice

“Malady of mortality”

— Anne Rice

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

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But death we are, and death we've always been.

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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

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The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

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I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something…

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“there are only two things which I believe—the first is that no mortal can refuse the Dark Gift once he really knows…

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Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions…

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My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

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Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your…

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We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would…

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“Ah! I had been screaming. I realized it. Lots of mortals around me, high up in the night, were telling me to…

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“And I? What am I? Do I live? Or am I always walking in death? Forever in love with time?”

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“If I could, I'd deliver you from old age and death, from aches and pains, from the blandishments of ghosts, from the…

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Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger…

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Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither…

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“Yet their whispers slithered around me. And those scents, ah, not a one was like another. And as clearly as if spoken…

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“I explained that often when we revealed ourselves to mortals we drove them mad—for we were unnatural beings, and yet we did…

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“Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing tin pans all over, pouring water on pillows, making clocks chime…

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“Our emotions are different but we have them. We never cast a cold eye on life or death. Don't misunderstand our seeming…

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“i wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy,…

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And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing…

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“She had no idea, really, what it meant to see a man's arm ripped out by the root, to see a head…

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In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same…

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It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and…

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“That one, there,” Tonio murmured, but the weight of his suspicion was breaking him, sickening him. Send death for me, like that,…

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And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the…

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Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no reason for…

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“I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find out the answer as…

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“For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that’s all. But life is more important than death.”

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I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

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“the death of another person is perhaps the only genuine supernatural event we ever experience.”

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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

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You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

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“What in hell was mortality? Shitting, pissing, eating, and then the same cycle all over again!”

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“Speak to me of the dark gifts. I use them. I'm gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the…

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….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle…

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“He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing…

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“But you must have all the things you never had of life and make of immortality a junk shop in which both…

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