VAMPIRE QUOTES V
quotations about vampires
They hover alive in the space about me, vampires of thought, drinking the life of my soul. Shadows, flung into space by sharp corners, breaking off at unknown angles, falling on concrete floors, climbing black walls.
CHESTER HIMES
Cast the First Stone
Give me the chance to dance romance
Don't run, I'm not the sun
So much at stake ... oh!
Bad choice of words
OUTKAST
"Dracula's Wedding"
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex -- sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive bloodsucking package.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
attributed, Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight
If there's one thing real vampires seem to have in common, it is their reluctance to tell the world about who, and what, they are.
KIM WALL
"Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood", The Guardian, August 15, 2015
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
The fact of the matter is, if vampires truly feed with even a tiny fraction of the frequency that they are depicted to in movies and folklore, then the human race would have been wiped out quite quickly after the first vampire appeared.
COSTAS EFTHIMIOU & SOHANG GANDHI
"Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality: Ghosts, Vampires and Zombies"
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
Vampires are both people, with human emotions and feelings, and supernatural. One side of their personality can be stressed over the other, but they are always shown as contradictory.
EMILY SANNA
Pop Monsters: The Modern-Day Craze for Vampires and Werewolves
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
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
Wow! When you become a vampire, men become broad shouldered and muscle-bound and women become tall and thin! You ever think of selling this on QVC?
PETE ABRAMS
"Vampires", Sluggy Freelance, September 27, 1998
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
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"
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
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"
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 world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
SMASHING PUMPKINS
"Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
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"
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