VAMPIRE QUOTES V

quotations about vampires

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Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.

ANNE RICE

interview, BookPage, November 2005


Surveys conducted by the Atlanta Vampire Alliance have found that there are at least five thousand people in the U.S. who identify as real vampires.... These communities have largely kept to themselves, knowing enough about public perception to not want to attract prying eyes.

YANAN WANG

"'Real' vampires exist and there are over 5,000 of them in the United States", National Post, October 26, 2016


I'm a vampire, babe,
suckin' blood
from the earth
I'm a vampire, baby,
suckin' blood
from the earth.
Well, I'm a vampire, babe,
sell you twenty barrels worth.
Good times are comin'.

NEIL YOUNG

"Vampire Blues"


I think I should warn you all, when a vampire bites it, it's never a pretty sight. No two bloodsuckers go the same way. Some yell and scream, some go quietly, some explode, some implode, but all will try to take you with them.

EDGAR FROG

The Lost Boys


The traits of modern-day vampires are pretty well established. They have fangs, drink human blood, and can't see themselves in mirrors. They can be warded off with garlic, or killed with a stake through the heart. Some, like Dracula, are aristocrats who live in castles. But vampires didn't start out so clearly defined. Scholars suspect that the modern conception of these Halloween monsters evolved from various traditional beliefs that were held throughout Europe. These beliefs centered around the fear that the dead, once buried, could still harm the living. Often, these legends arose from a misunderstanding of how bodies decompose. As a corpse's skin shrinks, its teeth and fingernails can appear to have grown longer. And as internal organs break down, a dark "purge fluid" can leak out of the nose and mouth. People unfamiliar with this process would interpret this fluid to be blood and suspect that the corpse had been drinking it from the living.

BECKY LITTLE

"The Bloody Truth About Vampires", National Geographic, October 26, 2016


The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.

ANNE RICE

interview, The Daily Beast, November 23, 2011


As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror. So this morning I combed George Clooney's hair; yesterday it was Brad Pitt's.

MEAT LOAF

"What I see in the mirror: Meat Loaf", The Guardian, October 29, 2010


Vampires are purposely seductive -- they are feminine in their flirtatious, provocative behavior and yet aggressively masculine in satisfying their needs.

CAROLINE JOAN PICART & CECIL E. GREEK

Monsters in and Among Us


The vampire does appear in literature right at the time the Reformation is gaining ascendancy, and he certainly does represent the old Catholic Europe. I'm sure my own vampires are seen as embodying the magic of my childhood Catholicism. They have the power of saints. They can work miracles and transcend time.

ANNE RICE

attributed, Anne Rice Reader

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hey black dress moves in a blue movie graverobbers from outer space well, your pulmonary trembles in your outstretched arm tremble so wicked two inch nails micro waist with a pale white feline face inclination eyebrows to there mistress to the horror kid cemetary of the white love ghoul, well take off your shabby dress come and lay beside me come a little bit closer come a little bit closer come a little bit closer come a little bit closer to this vampira, vampira, vampira hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

MISFITS

"Vampira"


Blood sucking creatures of the night
Nocturnal spectre hiding from the light
Cries screaming out every fright
Eagerly awaiting plight
Apparitions from the pits of Hell
Death plagues the streets in which they dwell
Demented lust, the secrets they must keep
Addicted to your blood
At dawn they sleep

SLAYER

"At Dawn They Sleep"


I've got a baby vampire in me,
nobody knows, nobody knows.
I saw you put it in me like a seed
that was as big as a stone.
And all I can do is watch it grow
and it comes and it goes.
It comes and it goes
and it's turning me into someone I don't know.

HELIUM

"Baby Vampire Made Me"


Well, vampires are evergreen. Every 10 or 15 years there's something about vampires. There is a BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Then it'll be quiet for a while, and then we'll have UNDERWORLD, and then it goes quiet, and then there's a TRUE BLOOD, and then it goes quiet.

DONNY CATES

"An Interview with Donny Cates, Creator of REDNECK", ComicsVerse, April 29, 2017


You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta.

CHARLAINE HARRIS

Dead Until Dark


What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Guilty Pleasures

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Sudden as a knife you thrust
into my sorry heart
and strong as a host of demons came,
gaudy and libertine,
to make in my corrupted mind
your bed and bedlam there;
Beast, who bind me to you close
as convict to his chains.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

"The Vampire"

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Among the many people who have wondered if garlic really does protect against vampires are Nobel Prize laureates Hogne Sandivik and Anders Baebeim, who conducted a satirical scientific study to seek the truth of the matter. Owing to a lack of vampires willing to participate in their study, they substituted leeches. In strictly standardized research surroundings, the leeches were to attach themselves either to a hand smeared with garlic or to a clean hand. The results of the study showed that the leeches, in two out of three cases, preferred the garlic-smeared hand. Therefore, the researchers theorized, the traditional belief that garlic has prophylactic properties against vampires is probably wrong. The reverse may in fact be true. So, to keep vampires out of Norway (where the experiment was conducted), the scientists recommended that restrictions on the use of garlic should be considered.

VICTORIA RENOUX

For the Love Of ... Garlic: The Complete Guide to Garlic Cuisine


What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Twilight Watch

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There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die.

SHERYL LEE

Los Angeles Times, 1991


My vampires Lestat and Louis and Armand, they look more like angels than the feral Dracula. And they're not repulsive like Dracula, they're very seductive and beautiful. To me that added to the drama, to the tragic dilemma of the vampire, that immortality in the form of a vampire gave him so much power, and so many gifts, and so much charm and glamour.

ANNE RICE

interview, Lightspeed Magazine, June 2012