VAMPIRE QUOTES
quotations about vampires
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
Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend
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.
WILLIAM HILL
Vampire's Kiss
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
BELA LUGOSI
Dracula
I'm going out to get a bite to drink.
GEORGE HAMILTON
Love at First Bite
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
ANGELINA JOLIE
The Telegraph, May 29, 2011
Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!
ANNE RICE
Interview with the Vampire
That's often the way here with vampires. Quiet lives, active deaths.
MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
"From the crypt, the greatest Halloween story ever told. And it was true", McClatchy DC Bureau, October 31, 2016
Some vampires are so amazingly stupid it seems they will never learn anything no matter how long they live. Others are pretentious--Mozart shows up a lot in vampiric form.
KATHERINE RAMSLAND
Anne Rice Reader
Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.
RICHARD LAYMON
The Stake
Drinking blood isn't what Hollywood makes it out to be, according to real-life vampires. First of all, there's no biting -- that's neither safe nor sanitary -- and with too many vital arteries, the neck isn't the favored spot. Transactions aren't carnages leaving the victim lifeless behind in a dark alley, and nor do vampires sleep in coffins or burn in daylight. They're generally cool with garlic. Most of them don't even have fangs.
KIM WALL
"Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood", The Guardian, August 15, 2015
Real vampires have formed online communities across the world as they share stories about awakenings, how to feed and they even seek out donors on forums and Facebook groups. Private groups include "Werewolves and vampires of Essex UK" and there is even a "vampire donors uk" -- for those wishing to offer their services.
NICOLE STINSO
"15,000 real vampires in the UK and they do more than just suck your blood", Daily Star, July 3, 2016
It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.
SHERYL LEE
interview, Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998
Heh Heh Heh! Lisa! Vampires are make believe, just like elves and gremlins and eskimos!
HOMER
The Simpsons
Even vampires cannot make food appear out of nothing. Vampires are thus constrained by ecological limits, aka physics and math. There is no garlic stronger than an ecological limit, and when those limits are exceeded, a stake will fall with deadly force.
KYLE G. CRIDER
"We Have Met the Vampires ... And They Are Us", Triple Pundit, March 10, 2016
I took mythology a lot more seriously since I'd become a vampire.
STEPHENIE MEYER
Breaking Dawn
It seems that the days of sparkly vampires are behind us and a new era of mental illness and exploration of sexualities and identities is now to be expected.
LORRAINE LEVIS
"In defence of grit lit -- YA writers dealing honestly with the modern world", The Irish Times, August 16, 2016
I'm not gonna lie
I'll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I'll show you my dark secret
I'm not gonna lie
I want you for mine
My blushing bride ...
I can promise you
You will stay as beautiful
With dark hair
And soft skin, forever
Forever
TOADIES
"Possum Kingdom"
Vampires are real skinflints, I've noticed.
GARRETT ROWLAN
"Same Sex Vampire Wedding", Shadow Masters
I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
BENTLEY LITTLE
"The Summoning: An Interview with Bentley Little", Giants of the Genre
These days, vampires are a massively important part of the pop culture landscape. Not only are they a staple in horror and fantasy fiction, but they are, perhaps unarguably, the sexiest of all monsters. Even if you're a furry and are super, aggressively onboard with werewolves, you can't sit there and tell me that you wouldn't prefer a profoundly hirsute vampire.
AUBREY SITTERSON
"The origin of the species: Vampires", Geek, August 22, 2016