Anne Rice Quotes

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

It's fascinating how life works.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

If you understand how a rainbow works, it does not make it less magnificent; it makes it more magnificent.

I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Life is our dictionary.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.

The purpose of life is life.

the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

What is the purpose of life? What is the primary objective of life? To live. To sustain itself.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.