Life & Wisdom Quote by Taylor Caldwell

A line like "I will ge glad to have done with this life forever" lands with the blunt finality of someone too tired to decorate their despair. Caldwell doesn’t offer the reader a dramatic flourish; she goes for an almost clerical neatness: done with this life. The phrasing frames living as a task, an obligation you complete, not a gift you savor. That choice matters. It sidesteps sentiment and makes the feeling sound practical, even reasonable, which is often how real exhaustion talks.

The small slip - "ge" instead of "be" - reads like an accident that accidentally deepens the effect. Whether it’s a transcription error or a moment of hurried writing, it suggests friction between intention and execution, the mind outrunning the hand. In a sentence about wanting to be finished, the glitch becomes a tiny stutter of mortality: even our last statements can be imperfect, interrupted.

Caldwell, a prolific twentieth-century novelist who wrote across faith, power, and historical destiny, understood the drama of big forces grinding down an individual will. This line carries that worldview in miniature. It’s not simply about death-wish melodrama; it hints at disenchantment with the entire system of living - the compromises, disappointments, and repetitions. "Forever" closes the door hard, making the desire not for change but for exit.

The subtext is less "I want to die" than "I no longer believe life will change in a way that justifies staying". That’s what gives it its chill: the certainty sounds calm.