Taylor Caldwell Quotes

“I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don’t betray each other.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life’s greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I’ve always enjoyed poor health.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I converse with my dog through ESP.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“The feeble soul merely whines and complains.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“At 8, I made a pact with God.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I will know him by his eyes.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I have been the victim of heartless malice.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I am a Westerner of Westerners!”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Women’s Lib? I couldn’t stand it.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Tel Aviv appeals to me.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“My childhood was appalling.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“My dreams are all follies.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I often reread books I have written.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“The world is a penal institution.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“My literary success meant nothing to me.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“If they can’t do it in California, it can’t be done anywhere.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I have anonymously helped many thousands.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I am the skeptic of skeptics.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Money? I lost all taste for it.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Are we not all desperate one way or another?”

― Taylor Caldwell

“I’m not that interested in people.”

― Taylor Caldwell

“Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.”

― Taylor Caldwell