Quotes from Taylor Caldwell

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

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

My literary success meant nothing to me

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

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

My dreams are all follies.

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

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

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

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

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

I have anonymously helped many thousands.

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

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

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.

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

The world is a penal institution.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

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

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

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

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

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.