These Vampire quotes will inspire you. A vampire is a creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging vampire quotes, vampire sayings, and vampire proverbs.
Best Vampire Quotes
- “Don’t be a fool for the Devil, darling.” ~ Anne Rice
- “I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.” ~ Anne Rice
- “That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can’t recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.” ~ Anne Rice
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“A vampire may play with his food, but he never sets it free.” ~ Pamela Palmer
- “Let the flesh instruct the mind.” ~ Anne Rice
- “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 , Vampire quotes blood
- “I’m really not good with impulse control.” ~ Richelle Mead
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“A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.” ~ Anne Rice
- “Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires … How avant-garde!” ~ Anne Rice
- “The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.” ~ Anne Rice
- “But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.” ~ Anne Rice
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“Vanity, thy name is vampire.” ~ Jim Butcher
- “You want a love that consumes you, you want passion and adventure and even a little danger.” ~ Ian Somerhalder
- “I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.” ~ Bela Lugosi
- “His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.” ~ Anne Rice
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“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.” ~ Angelina Jolie
- “The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.” ~ Bill Nighy
- “Vampires, real vampires, didn’t nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.” ~ David Wellington
- “The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.” ~ Richelle Mead
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“Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt” ~ Anne Rice
- “I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!” ~ Anne Rice
- “When I say, “I love you,” it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You’re a hell of a woman.” ~ Joss Whedon , Vampire quotes love
- “Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.” ~ Joss Whedon
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“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.” ~ Anne Rice
- “For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross” ~ Thomas Pynchon
- “Howdy. I’m gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don’t mind none.” ~ Bill Paxton
- “…We were born vampires.” “I thought you became –” “— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat… now what is it you eat? Oh yes, chocolate… you don’t want to turn it into another Agnes Nitt, do you? Less chocolate to go around.” He sighed. “Oh dear, superstition, superstition everywhere we turn.” ~ Terry Pratchett
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“Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there’s just no way around that.” ~ Alan Ball
- “I am a big fan of vampires. I’ve always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.” ~ Alex O’Loughlin
- “You won’t find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta” ~ Charlaine Harris
- “It’s cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.” ~ Josh Hutcherson
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“If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would’ve been like Woodstock.” ~ Joss Whedon
- “Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.” ~ Holly Black
- “I coveted you. I had no right to want you–but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what’s become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.” ~ Stephenie Meyer
- “Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.” ~ Calvin Trillin
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“The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.” ~ Joss Whedon
- “The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren’t monsters from the get-go, they’re human beings first… and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.” ~ Rachelle Lefevre , Vampire quotes sci-fi
- “Evil is a point of view … God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately … for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.” ~ Anne Rice
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“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.” ~ Richard Pryor
- “I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.” ~ Anne Rice
- “Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan’s power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God’s child, and that we are God’s children also. There are no children of Satan, really.” ~ Anne Rice
- “I’m from New Orleans. There’s a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.” ~ Ian Somerhalder
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“If the apocalypse comes…beep me!” ~ Joss Whedon
- “Master, don’t kill me. Let me live – punish me – torture me – but let me live. I can’t face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.” ~ Dwight Frye
- “Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan’s power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God’s child, and that we are God’s children also. There are no children of Satan, really.” ~ Anne Rice
- “I’m from New Orleans. There’s a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.” ~ Ian Somerhalder
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“If the apocalypse comes…beep me!” ~ Joss Whedon
- “Master, don’t kill me. Let me live – punish me – torture me – but let me live. I can’t face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.” ~ Dwight Frye
- “The incident with Dawn hadn’t been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn’t expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a tree. Still, the incident had given me a dangerous reputation. The story had gained legendary status, and I liked to imagine that it was still being told around campfires late at night. Judging by the look on the girl’s face, it was.” ~ Richelle Mead
- “I had a standing arrangement with God: I’d agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.” ~ Richelle Mead
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“I want a cheeseburger so badly, but I have to be a vampire in a few weeks.” ~ Kristen Stewart
- “What I’m working on now – I’m back to fantasy, although considering that it’s me, I’m turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It’s a vampire story – but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn’t become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.” ~ Octavia Butler
- “Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.” ~ Matt Groening
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“Claudia… you’ve been a very very naughty little girl.” ~ Anne Rice
- “Bottom line is, even if you see ’em coming, you’re not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can’t help that. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are.” ~ Joss Whedon
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“Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn’t it? I shall never ever grow up.” ~ Anne Rice
- “Locked together in hatred. But I can’t hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I’m yours forever. But now it’s time to end it, Louis. Now it’s time to leave him.” ~ Anne Rice
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“I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.” ~ Richelle Mead
- “Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there’s simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.” ~ David Foster Wallace
- “Oh, so that’s why you’re up here. For a pity party.” “This isn’t a joke. I’m serious.” I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress. He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. “So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I’d brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it’s going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you’ll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long.” ~ Richelle Mead
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“Actually I liked that ‘Let the Right One In,’ that Swedish vampire movie.” ~ David Sedaris
- “Cordelia: I personally don’t think it’s possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.” ~ Joss Whedon
- “In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.” ~ Anne Rice
- “Film spectators are quiet vampires.” ~ Jim Morrison
- “Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.” ~ Anne Rice
