Ella Maillart Quotes
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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.
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Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
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When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.
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There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
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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.
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The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
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Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
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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.
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The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
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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.
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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.
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We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.
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Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
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The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
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The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
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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.
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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.