Anne Rice: Quotes about the world

“But reason was only a created thing, imposed with faith upon the world, and the stars promise nothing to no one.”

“The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”

“It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world… on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.”

“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”

“So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.”

“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”

“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”

“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving 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.”

“His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.”

“Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun”

“Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.”

“Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.”