VAMPIRE QUOTES II
quotations about vampires
We are facing a typical consumption-resource trade off. The vampire society derives utility from consumption of blood, but in sucking the blood of a human being and in turning him to a vampire the resource of human beings is reduced, whereas the number of vampires is increased. Both of these effects diminish the resource of humans per vampire curtailing future possibilities of consumption.
RICHARD HARTL & ALEXANDER MEHLMANN
"The Transylvanian Problem of Renewable Resources"
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
BETTE DAVIS
The Lonely Life
A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.
KELLY LINK
"A Vampire is a Flexible Metaphor: An Interview with Kelly Link", Gigantic Magazine, October 23, 2013
I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are.
SHERYL LEE
interview, Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998
To make you a vampire they have to suck your blood. And then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing.
BUFFY
"Welcome to the Hellmouth", Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The good news is that vampires are predictable. Once you get their number, you won't be caught off guard.
JUDITH ORLOFF
Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Bloody Bones
Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that undead are just like you and me ... well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Ashes
I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.
MICHAEL ROMKEY
I, Vampire
They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret.
ANNE RICE
Interview with the Vampire
Certainly the best vampire stories have always been, they're not really talking about vampires, right? They're talking about something else. They're talking about sex or a marginalized peoples or all kinds of things.
DONNY CATES
"Taking a Bite Out of Redneck: An Interview with Donny Cates", The Outhousers, April 26, 2017
Vampires are -- actually, they never act up, so don't worry about them. And don't call them vampires, or heliophobes. It's rude, they don't like it, and their lawyers are the best in the world. We're calling them Hemo-Americans now.
BILL WILLINGHAM
"Bill Willingham Moves to Patreon for New Stories -- And Letting Others Have His Ideas", Bleeding Cool, August 19, 2016
A method believed to be excellent for deterring a vampire is to sprinkle millet or other small seeds over the floor. This is because vampires are supposedly such compulsive creatures, they would feel the need to count each seed and thus be, at least temporarily, distracted from their search for fresh blood.
VICTORIA RENOUX
For the Love Of ... Garlic: The Complete Guide to Garlic Cuisine
Vampires, incidentally, do exist, even if Vlad was not one of them. I well remember the Hamburg Vampire in the middle 1960s. He climbed into a flat and drank the blood of a young woman, who asserted that before he came through the window she had felt a deadly chill and become unable to move. The skeptical police took her off to the hospital, where the Vampire was actually caught halfway up the creepers on the wall, on his way to have one more for the road. He ended up in a mental clinic. The victim and the police officer in the case ended up telling their story in convincing detail on German television.
NEAL ASCHERSON
"Dracula in Britain", Games with Shadows
Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
The Last Vampire
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
BAUHAUS
"Bela Lugosi's Dead"
Vampires occur everywhere, but in busy cities no one notices.
MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
"From the crypt, the greatest Halloween story ever told. And it was true", McClatchy DC Bureau, October 31, 2016
I wait my whole life to bite the right one.
OUTKAST
"Dracula's Wedding"
Great! The Bloodsucking Brady Bunch!
EDGAR FROG
The Lost Boys
But it was the dark hunger in his tone that got to her. Damn kinky vampire had actually liked the knife.
NALINI SINGH
Angels' Blood