Anne Rice Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

  Anne Rice

  Giving, Suffering, Our Words

• It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

  Anne Rice

  Simple, Giving, Optimism

  Anne Rice (1983). “The Queen of the Damned”, Ballantine Books

• I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Bird, Heartless

• We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

  Anne Rice

  Suffering, Force, Endure

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Feb 05, 2017

• You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.

  Anne Rice

  Struggle, Personal Knowledge, Years

• No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

  Anne Rice

  Memories, Yield, Long

  "Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles, Book 8)". Book by Anne Rice, October 16, 2001.

• Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

  Anne Rice

  Passion, Heart, Suffering

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

• You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me, Mother. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer, that's all

  Anne Rice

  Mother, Strong, Loneliness

• And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.

  Anne Rice

  Heart, Europe, Suffering

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.157, Ballantine Books

• I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

  Anne Rice

  Race, Ideas, Evil

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1933, Ballantine Books

• I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Song, Blessed, Tunnels

• Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

  Anne Rice

  Love Is, Suffering, Gains

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2794, Ballantine Books

• Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters.

  Anne Rice

  Stars, Book, Character

• Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

  Anne Rice

  Soul, Growth, Suffering

  Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

• This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Suffering, Overcoming

  Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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