Taylor Caldwell Quotes

"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Animals)

"I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Medical, Medicine)

"I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Thought)

"I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Life)

"I have been the victim of heartless malice."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Malice)

"Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Giving)

"I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Life)

"I have anonymously helped many thousands."
- Taylor Caldwell

"I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Horror, Poverty)

"I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it."
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"I converse with my dog through ESP."
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"I am the skeptic of skeptics."
- Taylor Caldwell

"I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Happiness, World)

"I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Work, Education, Goal)

"I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Soul)

"The feeble soul merely whines and complains."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Soul)

"I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Money, Determination)

"My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Being, Relatives, Writer)

"No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Men, Genius, Woman)

"Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Ambition, Fire, Obscurity)

"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

"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Death, People, Dying)

"My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Life)

"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Arrogance, Rome)

"My dreams are all follies."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Dreams)

"The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Soul, Race, Will)

"The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Idea, Atheism, Eternity, Memory)

"The world is a penal institution."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: World)

"Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Fools, Silly)

"Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Death, Survival, Personality)

"Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Women)

"Tel Aviv appeals to me."
- Taylor Caldwell

"If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere."
- Taylor Caldwell

"I am a Westerner of Westerners!"
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"I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: World)

"I will ge glad to have done with this life forever."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Life, Will)

"I will know him by his eyes."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Eyes, Will)

"I'm not that interested in people."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: People)

"I've always enjoyed poor health."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Health, Poor)

"My literary success meant nothing to me."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Success, Literary, Nothing)

"If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: God)

"I often reread books I have written."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Books)

"In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Being, Fortune, Living, Sleep)

"It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Money, Desire, Help, Waste)

"It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Nature, Human nature, Obscurity)

"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
(Related: Life, Adventure, Excitement, Joy, Learning)

"Money? I lost all taste for it."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Money, Taste)

"My childhood was appalling."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Childhood)

"If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?"
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Memory)

"At 8, I made a pact with God."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: God)

"Character, I am sure, lies in the genes."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Character, Lies)

"Are we not all desperate one way or another?"
- Taylor Caldwell