Anne Rice Quotes about Lying

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I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

Anne Rice

Lying, Moral, Christianity

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

Anne Rice

Change, Lying, Vampire

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 truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

Anne Rice

Lying, Believe, Purpose

Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.537, Random House

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

Anne Rice

Lying, Facts, I Loved You

This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

Anne Rice

Disappointment, Children, Lying

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.286, Ballantine Books

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

Anne Rice

Lying, Anger, Weakness

From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.

Anne Rice

Dream, Lying, Heart

Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

Anne Rice

Lying, Knows

Anne Rice (2001). “Blood and gold, or, The story of Marius”

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

Anne Rice

Lying, Long, Endure