Taylor Caldwell Quotes (58 Quotes)


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


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

    But what was a body Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

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


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

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


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

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

    If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

    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.

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


    I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.


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


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


    Honest men live on charity in their age the alm houses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints, and you and I are neither.

    I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

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

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

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


    Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.


    There will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities-until the plotters have gained their objective an exhausted world willing to submit to a PLANNED Marxist economy and total and meek ENSLAVEMENT-in the name of PEACE.


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



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


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

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

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



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




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


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





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