Quotes
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. and when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
---Nietzche
"We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst."
---"Vampire's Kiss" by William Hill
"Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood."
---Francis Ford Coppola's journal in "BS Dracula: The Film and the Legend"
"I love the night. It's the only time I feel really alive."
---Helen Chandler in the film "Dracula" (1931)
"As I always say, one must never be afraid to look deep down into the darkest depths of oneself where the light never reaches."
---Elizabeth the vampire in the film "Daughters of Darkness"
"My last dinner cost me my lover."
---Anne Parillaud in the film "Innocent Blood"
"The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses."
---Anne Rice
"It takes us back to primitive times when we worshipped dark gods as well as light gods. And it's a powerful metaphor for the outcast-- and monster in all of us.
---Anne Rice on the vampire as a hero
"A vampire lives in a constant state of desire and disgust. His nature often revolts him, but he doesn't have the will to deny his indulgences. There's the killing, but there's also the pleasure, the sensuality, the lust. The sheer ecstasy of it all."
---"Forever Knight - Stranger Than Fiction"
"The blood flowed down upon my shirt and coat, and as he watched it with a narrow gleaming eye. It seemed an eternity that he watched it ...." I think that he knew what I meant to do before he even did it, and I was waiting in my helplessness as if I'd been waiting for years. He pressed his bleeding wrist to my mouth, said firmly, a little impatiently, "Louis, drink." And I did."
---Louis in "Interview With The Vampire" by Anne Rice
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