50 Anne Rice Quotes About The Beauty Of Being Alive

“We are blessed to be tiny beings in this universe. We are blessed to feel momentous because we are larger than these grains of sand.”

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“Whatever you’ve suffered, no matter how bad it’s been, you can use that, use that to be a stronger person.”

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“We spend too much time cursing time—time waits for no man, time will tell, oh, the ravages of time, time flies! We don’t think about the gift of time. Time gives us the chance to make mistakes and correct them, to regenerate, to grow. Time gives us the chance to forgive, to restore, to do better tha…”

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“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.”

— Anne Rice, amazon.com

“I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.”

— Anne Rice, amazon.com

“Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.”

— Anne Rice, amazon.com

“You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow.”

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“Collect yourself, whatever you are, into something with a purpose.”

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“You have to suffer through this emptiness... and find what impels you to continue.”

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“Life is a gift.”

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“I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.”

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“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”

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“Every moment must be first known and then savored.”

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“Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on.”

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“We do good when we make others forget their sorrow, make them forget for a little while.”

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“You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise - there is no hope.”

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“I dream of miracles but I cannot imagine them. I pray for mercy, yet I cannot envision how it would come about.”

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“There is no normal life. There is only life.”

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“That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can’t bear to be this happy without the other person with you.”

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“You really have need of very little, but each of us must decide how much he wants.”

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“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment.”

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“Only love could create such conflict, such longing, such fear.”

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“Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams and from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.”

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“The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.”

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“Hoping for something is not the same as expecting it.”

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“Pain. Unspeakable pain. It didn’t matter who in this world or any other was staring at me, watching me, seeking to share this moment or merely shuddering as I experienced it. Just didn’t matter. Because in pain like this one is always alone.”

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“If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to violent flashes of recall, and then agitated you and made you unsure of what you knew and didn't know.”

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“And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.”

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“Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I had revealed to him?”

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“I would have done just about anything for him.”

— Anne Rice, amazon.com