List of Ella Maillart Quotes

I Did Not Want To Be Depressed By The Gap Existing Between My Weakness And My Ambition.

I Refuse To Imprison Our Acts In The Rigid Mould Of Sentences.

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.

From The Beginning, I Wanted To Live My Own Life, And Patiently I Shored Up That Desire Against Wind And Tide.

The Usual Channels Of University Studies Or Secretarial Work Did Not Appeal To Me. I Cherished Difficult Dreams Through Confidence In Myself.

Those Who Appreciate The Ways Of Simple Tribes, Where Every Activity Is Direct And Immediately Understandable, Are Able To Live Among Them.

The State Of Minds Vary According To The Angle Under Which One Examines Them.

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.

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.

I Wanted To Learn A Few Foreign Languages, And Therefore I Had To Go Abroad.

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.

Humanity Is Made Up Of An Infinity Of Different Individuals. Each Of Us Travels For Motives Exclusively His Own.