88 Quotes by Beryl Markham

That’s what makes death so hard – unsatisfied curiosity.

It seems characteristic of the mind of man that the repression of what is natural to humans must be abhorred, but that what is natural to an infinitely more natural animal must be confined within the bounds of a reason peculiar only to men – more peculiar sometimes than seems reasonable at all.

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep-leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.

How is it possible to bring order out of memory?

I have a trunk containing continents.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things – the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold – were false to you.

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa...

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.