Anne Rice Quotes

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.