Anne Rice Quotes

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

A piece of each of us died.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

I know what it's like to lose.

I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.

Despair is part of love.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.