Ella Maillart Quotes

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Ella Maillart

Between, Ambition, Depressed

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart

Live, Understand, Before

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
Ella Maillart

Character, Perfect, Cannot

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.
Ella Maillart

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
Ella Maillart

Learn, Sailing, Easier

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
Ella Maillart

Travel, Moving, Give

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
Ella Maillart

Time, Home, Long

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Ella Maillart

Away, Run, Enthusiasm

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
Ella Maillart

Live, Simple, Able

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Ella Maillart

Travel, Yourself, Afraid

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ella Maillart

Life, Live, Wanted

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
Ella Maillart

Humanity, Different, Made

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
Ella Maillart

Everything, Wish, Sure

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
Ella Maillart

Feeling, Around, Sense

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Ella Maillart

Life, Knowledge, Big

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart

Acts, Refuse, Sentences

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
Ella Maillart

Learn, Wanted, Few

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
Ella Maillart

End, Self, Find

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
Ella Maillart

Travel, Judge, Self

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
Ella Maillart

Feeling, Possible, Develop

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
Ella Maillart

Life, Blessed, Sense

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
Ella Maillart

Great, Mind, Done

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
Ella Maillart

Able, Grasp, Possess

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
Ella Maillart

Music, Live, Sunshine

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
Ella Maillart

Travel, Live, End

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Writer

Born: February 20, 1903

Died: March 27, 1997

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