"The Vampire Lestat" Quotes

We are the powerful, and to be powerful is to be alone.

The only justice one can ever have is the justice one makes for oneself.

I understand the monster he's become, because I've lived the same horror.

We are the ancient ones, the powerful, the forever young, the eternally beautiful, the timelessly wicked.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and in spite of True Romance magazines, we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

To understand is the greatest gift one can give.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of love is the knowledge that you are doing it for someone else.

There comes a time for every vampire when the idea of eternity becomes momentarily unbearable.