VAMPIRE QUOTES V

quotations about vampires

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Vampires are real -- at least the amoebae variety -- and they have been around for millions of years, say researchers who found evidence of predation in ancient microbial ecosystems dating back more than 740 million years. Using a scanning electron microscope to examine minute fossils, the researchers found perfectly circular drill-holes that may have been formed by an ancient relation of Vampyrellidae amoebae.

IANS123

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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

Tags: Anne Rice

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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

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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

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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

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Vampires are more than the myth or Twilight saga -- they're REAL and drink more than just blood. An active online community across forums and social media reveals vampires also feed off human life and emotional energy.

NICOLE STINSON

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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

Tags: Pete Abrams

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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

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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

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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

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I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity.

ELLEN SCHREIBER

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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

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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

Tags: Charles Baudelaire

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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

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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

Tags: Laurell K. Hamilton

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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

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Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.

RICHELLE MEAD

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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

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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

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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

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