Quotes by Taylor Caldwell

• Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
• I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
• I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
• I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
• I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
• I have been the victim of heartless malice.
• Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
• I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
• I have anonymously helped many thousands.
• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
• I converse with my dog through ESP.
• I am the skeptic of skeptics.
• I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
• I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
• I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
• The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
• I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
• My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
• Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
• One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
• People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
• My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
• The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
• My dreams are all follies.
• The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
• The world is a penal institution.
• Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
• Tel Aviv appeals to me.
• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
• I am a Westerner of Westerners!
• I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
• I will know him by his eyes.
• I'm not that interested in people.
• I've always enjoyed poor health.
• My literary success meant nothing to me.
• If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
• I often reread books I have written.
• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
• 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.
• Money? I lost all taste for it.
• My childhood was appalling.
• If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
• At 8, I made a pact with God.
• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
• Are we not all desperate one way or another?