Quotes By Taylor Caldwell

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

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

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

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

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

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

The world is a penal institution.

I'm not that interested in people.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

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

My childhood was appalling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

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

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

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

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

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

Money? I lost all taste for it.

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